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-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Ashton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:56 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Rename with lockword


Thus it was written in the epistle of Michael Berkowitz,
> It appears that you cannot rename a file in a different group for the
> purpose of putting on a lockword as the following shows.
>
> :BUILD ABC.MS
> :RENAME ABC.MS,ABC.MS/X
>                      ^
> Invalid character in MPE file name. (CIERR 583)
> :CHGROUP MS
> :RENAME ABC,ABC/X
> :
>
> Short of going into the group itself, isn't this a bug, probaly related to
> POSIX naming.

I would submit that it is, instead, a syntax error.  Give this one a try:

:RENAME ABC.MS,ABC/X.MS

HTH,
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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