At 12:35 PM -0700 5/24/01, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>On Thu, 24 May 2001, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> > From any language, you can do a $QIO to the file (or actually the
>> directory containing the file) with IO$_ACCESS and it will return the
>> FID in the FIB (File Information Block). I believe you have to start
>> with the [000000] directory and do a chain of QIOs to each directory
>> file, shuffling the FID into the DID (Directory ID) until you get
>> down to the file you want.
>
>Thanks for that too.
Your welcome, but I forgot to mention you can call sys$search and it
will fill in the FID in the NAM.
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