I previously wrote:
>
> Is there any way through FINFO to tell if a file is permanent or
> temporary?  If you simply do an FINFO("<filename>","EXISTS"), it
> returns true regardless of the domain.
>

Thanks for all of the input.  The original intent of my knowing whether
it was permanent or temporary was to determine what format of the purge
command I needed to issue in order to purge a file within a command
file.  [The file could exist in either domain.]

Based on all of the input, I implemented the following:

    IF (FINFO("!PFILE","EXISTS")) THEN
       IF ((FINFO("!PFILE",-13) MOD 8) = 2) THEN
          PURGE !PFILE,TEMP
       ELSE
          PURGE !PFILE
       ENDIF
    ENDIF

For all of the other FINFO options, the formatted strings and integer
returns returned identically mapped responses.  I did not realize that
the FMTOPTIONS returns a string that does not include the TEMP / PERM
designator (but the integer value does).

Thanks for your input...

Glenn




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