I solved the problem -- I was reading the Intrinsics manual incorrectly.

My mistake.

FFILEINFO Item 106 states that Perm domain = 1 and the temp domain = 2

I incorrectly read it as 2 for the perm and 1 for the temp domain.

My boo boo, so FFILEINFO works just fine.

Thanks anyway.





On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:09:20 -0500, Brian Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>To reaffirm my suspicions about FFILEINFO, I wrote a Pascal/AIF sub
>that calls AIFFILEGGET to give me the domain of this file and the AIF
>is telling me the file is in the TEMP domain, which is correct.
>
>So for whatever reason FFILEINFO is incorrectly reporting the domain as
>PERM.
>
>TIA,
>Brian Donaldson.
>
>
>On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:21:36 -0500, Brian Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>I hope someone out there may know the answer to this one --
>>
>>I have a Cobol program that has opened a file in the TEMP domain.
>>
>>It is opened with FOPEN. I call FFILEINFO on that particular file number
>>to get a bunch of different items, one of which is the DOMAIN of the file
>>(item 106).
>>
>>FFILEINFO is telling me the file is in the PERM domain which is not correct.
>>There is
>>no such file in the PERM domain. It resides in the TEMP domain only. 
>>
>>This part of the program is covered by a call to GETPRIVMODE.
>>
>>I have even tried plugging in a call to GETUSERMODE but the results are the
>>same.
>>
>>There is no file equation in place for this file.
>>
>>Anyone have an idea what is happening?
>>
>>TIA,
>>Brian Donaldson.
>>
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