Having trouble renaming file within VMS 7.3-2

[Jorge Cocomess]

Greetings,
I'm having little trouble renaming a file from my home directory sys$login to another directory. Does this have anything to do with
OSD-5??


Thanks,
J

Crow-TBC> rename TEST1.TXT;1 disk23:[crow_archive]TEST1.TXT;* /log
%RENAME-E-NOTRENAMED, DISK5:[USER.XXX]TEST1.TXT;1 not renamed
-RENAME-E-NOTSAMEDEV, Cannot RENAME to a different device

[Willem Grooters · Accepted solution]

Simple - it's what the last line states.
SYS$LOGIN seems to be DISK5:[USER.XXX], and you try to rename to another device (disk23). And that cannot be done by RENAME. You have to copy and delete the original.

[Robert_Boyd]

you can use the following command to do the whole operation in one go:

$ backup TEST1.TXT;1 disk23:[crow_archive]TEST1.TXT; /log /verify /delete /new

Robert

[Arch_Muthiah]

Jorge,

We can rename dirs/files within the same disk device only. If we want to move the files to difft disk, then as William and Bob said, we have to use use copy/delete or backup for this purpose.


Archunan

[Jorge Cocomess]

You guys are right. I thought I was able to do this for this entire time until I did some more research.

Thanks so much for fast responses.

J.

[Jorge Cocomess]

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