Ted writes:

> They are, essentially, file equations
>  which survive across multiple sessions and jobs.  If that is the concept,
> then
>  surely the same arguments which stand for PURGE working as it does would
> serve
>  for RENAME acting as it does.  Supposedly, they are both for the same
> purpose,
>  which I take to be to clear out the far end of the link in preparation for
>  putting something else there, the difference being (as it is anyway) that
>  RENAME sets the file aside rather than eliminating it.

Clearly, somebody else agrees with you :-).

Wirt Atmar