Setting VMS file attributes

[Donald Ashton]

Both the PC program and VAX analysis are activated under user control. The analysis program operates interactively on files selected by the user from within the program.

I shall do some investigation into setting the default file attributes from the share definition since this one seems to be feasible.

I have subsequently found out that different users work in different disk areas without common shares and copy directories as required. The use of a comand file to perform the directory copying rather than directly using the DCL copy command is another approach I will consider.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

If the files do arrive in specific places on the VAX you could use job_daemon (see

http://zinser.no-ip.info/vms/sw/job_daemon.htmlx

to trigger a DCL to change the file attributes)

Greetings, Martin

[Kjell Carlsson · Accepted solution]

Hi

You can use the RSH command from the PC to create and execute DCL-commands within the VAX. Just enable the RSH/REXEC service from TCPIP$CONFIG.

If you wish to run it from a PC program, just spawn a subprocess.

Kjell Carlsson

[Donald Ashton]

The user can decide just where to put the files, which rules out most approaches. I have currently implemented a special 'directory copy' command file with the file attribute changes applied automatically.

The use of RSH looks promising and certainly merits further investigation.