Ernest Hill writes:
>
> I just discovered a problem on with symbolic links on MPEX/ix 6.0. I have
> reported this problem to the response center. After performing the following
> steps:
>   BUILD A
>   NEWLINK LINKA;TO=A
>   PURGE LINKA  (Note this purges A not LINKA)
>   BUILD B
>   COPY B, ./LINKA
> A new file A is created in the MPE namespace, but the file does not contain
> the file name in the file label. If you try to do CALC FINFO('A',1) you
> receive the error: An error occurred while accessing the file for FINFO.
> (CIERR 9984).
> If instead of COPY B, ./LINKA you do COPY B, LINKA then everything is o.k.

FWIW, I can't duplicate this problem on either my 5.5 machine or my 6.0 machine.

Both machines are very, very current on patches.
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