----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcel Kilgus"
Ralf Reköndt wrote:
It's really that awful, as OPEN tries the device you told it, then, if no
success, uses DATAD$ or somewhat others, DEV or such.
DATAD$, PROGD$ or DESTD$ is prepended to the filename, depending on
the call. DEV is just a device like any other I think.
Note that I do not endorse this design in any way, the whole filename
handling in QDOSMSQ is not, let's say, optimal. But as I said it's
been this way for 30 years, I don't see any urgency to change it now.
Yes, but I found it the only way in S_Edit to see, if a filename really
exists, not to pass it to DATD$ or similar. I set the SV_DATAD to "", kept
the value, check the device and put it back. There were no other way. Ok, as
far as I know.
Cheers...Ralf
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