FILE

The ￿lename , groupname and accountname identi￿ers may each contain up to eight uppercase alphan umeric characters. The envid has two valid forms:

node[.domain[.organization]] envname[.domain[.or ganization]]

If formaldesignator is not equated to another ￿le, the parameter speci￿es the name of an actual ￿le.

*formal- Speci￿es a backreference to a formal ￿le designator de￿ned in

designator the FILE command. Note that this bac kreferenced form is v alid only if it appears to the righ t of the equal sign (=).

￿lereference The actual ￿le designator of the ￿le, in terpreted according to MPE-escaped seman tics. ￿lereference 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[/lockword][.groupname[.accountname]][:envid]

The ￿lename , groupname and accountname identi￿ers may each contain up to eight uppercase alphan umeric characters. The envid has two valid forms:

node[.domain[.organization]] envname[.domain[.or ganization]]

If you include this command in a job and ￿lereference includes a lockword that you omit from the command line, MPE/iX will not open the ￿le. In a session, MPE/iX prompts y ou for a lockword as necessary.

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