[Info-vax] detecting links made with SET FILE/ENTER

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-13 15:03:36 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:

> Is there a QUICK AND EASY way to detect links which have been produced 
> via SET FILE/ENTER?

Nope.    For a traditional VMS system and particularly without the hard 
links support enabled, AFAIK, there isn't a way to identify a file 
alias, short of matching FIDs.

With hardlinks enabled, F$SYMLINK_ATTRIBUTES will return null, if it's 
not a symbolic link.  Look for a file of organization SPECIAL and type 
SYMBOLIC_LINK.

Related:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/5763/5763pro_021.html

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/6679/6679pro_008.html

Here's some V8.4 stuff, and look at section 3.6

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/84final/6677/ba322_90089.pdf

Which gets you to commands such as:

$ CREATE /SYMLINK="/SYS$HELP/CC_RELEASE_NOTES.PS" RELNOTES.PS


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