[Info-vax] Why does this DIFF command fail, then run fine the 2nd time around?

[Volker Halle]

Please note that this apparent filename parsing problem has nothing to do with rooted logical names, as can be seen with the output posted above:

$ diff [.a.to_v53]test.txt [.b.*]
%DIFF-F-OPENIN, error opening SYS$SYSDEVICE:[ITRC.B.*]TEST.TXT; as input

As the problem 'disappears' after the first execution of this command in the current process and you have to log out and log in again to be able to reproduce this behaviour again, it most likely is related to some XQP data structure initialization in P1 space.

Volker.