Hi Duane :) 

    Without any side or inferred references ... Weren't the AIF routines
designed after HP started down the POSIX route?   I seem to remember a
lot of things coming out of HP that were very much of a *nix flavour
rather than pure MPE flavor back in the MPE 5 and 6 eras... 


Thanks,
Art
Art Bahrs, CISSP 
Security Engineer 
Providence Health & Services 
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Duane Percox
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:47 AM
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Subject: Re: Cannot Purge PRIV mode File Problem

Brian writes:

>One thing I did forget to mention was that once I have the eight char 
>(lowercase or uppercase) lockword, I am using the AIF intrinsic 
>AIFFILEGPUT to plug the lockword into the file.
>
>So I am assuming that the AIF isn't smart enough to upshift all the 
>letters before plugging the lockword into the file.

Wrong assumption.

The AIF routines were written for a certain level of programmer,
excercising a certain level of caution.

The AIF routines were not written for the average programmer to
magically become an above average systems programmer.

duane

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