FILE

This' command enables y ou to create a ￿le equation that o verrides programmatic or system default ￿le speci￿cations.

Syntax

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*formaldesignator

￿

 

FILE formaldesignator =￿ ￿lereference

 

 

2 ;DEV=2 # 32 device 32 ,2 outpri 32

,numcopies 3 33

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F

3￿ ,ASCII,BINARY ￿ 3 3 3

2

;REC=

2

recsize

2,

2

blockfactor

2 ,2 U

4

 

 

34

 

 

34 4 V

5

 

5 5 5

2 ;ENV= env￿le 32 ;ACC=2 APPEND 332 ;FORMS= formsmsg 3

2 ;FORMID= formid 3￿

;NOCCTL

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;CCTL

 

 

 

 

Parameters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

formal-

 

The formal ￿le designator, in terpreted according to

designator

 

MPE-escaped semantics formaldesignator , can be either an

 

 

 

MPE ￿le (i.e., one that uses MPE syn tax) or it can be a

 

 

 

POSIX ￿le name beginning with a dot or a slash. F or example,

 

 

 

you can use the escaped pathname

/SYS/PUB/FILE since it is

equivalent to the MPE name FILE.PUB.SYS .

If the ￿le designator follo ws MPE syntax, it must use this format:

￿lename[.groupname[.accountname]][:envid]

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