$NEWPASS and $OLDPASS is a temporary file. No, that's not a mistake in
grammar. They are the same file. In the creation of the file $NEWPASS is
used (in my example I was using EDIT/3000; Marshall Medoff mentions its use
in compling --> PREPing/LINKing; I could have used this file in the context
of FCOPY). In the use of the file $OLDPASS is used.

My posting was based on astonishment that $NEWPASS was being kept in the
PERMANENT DOMAIN. That was not even accurate reporting on the part of
EDIT/3000. The resulting $OLDPASS could only be seen by LISTFTEMP, not
LISTF.

Leonard S. Berkowitz







Marshall Medoff <[log in to unmask]> on 07/16/98 10:04:01 AM

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Subject:  Re[2]: $NEWPASS a permanent file????




Doesn't the system know about $newpass as a permanent file but after
writing to it and closing it, the system automatically renames it
"$oldpass" as in Joe's example print?

Don't the language compilers always write to $newpass, but when you "prep"
you have to prep from $oldpass, unless a user file is specified?

Just a few things from way back in the closet.

MM