Gehan G. wrote:

> I decided to add an ACD to make the file avaiable to me only.
>Unfortunetlly it didn't work. I was talking to tom offlist about
>this and he suggested an add-on editor. I was wondering if
>anyone else has any non add-on suggestions.

Well, you cannot create a file in an MPE group outside your logon
account unless you have SM capability. You can do this without any
special capabilities if the target is an HFS subdirectory with the
appropriate permissions (via /bin/chmod or ALTSEC for an ACD).

However, EDITOR.PUB.SYS won't like HFS style filenames, I guess.

If you want to use EDITOR and need to have the file reside in an
MPE group in the other account, you might try the following type
of workaround...

 Use COPY or FCOPY to grab a local copy, which can be worked on
 with EDITOR and then use FCOPY to send the modified contents
 back to the file in the other account. The FCOPY will simply
 replace the contents of the existing file, so your ACD should
 stay in place and effective.

You might be able to wrap the above in a small UDC or command file
to make it more convenient to use. One gotcha is that you need to
BUILD your file in the other account large enough for its current
and potential future size... EDITOR would rebuild the file for any
increased or reduced LIMIT as required, but the FCOPY approach will
not (for obvious reasons).

Lars.

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