It was said by Tom Lang:

>The commands manual gives the following CAUTION for OCTCOMP:

>Before using this command be sure your logon group and account does not
>contain files of the form Yn, Ynn or Ynnn where n is any alphanumeric
>character. OCTCOMP may create temporary files named in this format and 
>similarly named permanent files may cause an error condition

>Could be another reason for not creating the output file.

Not only does it create Y... temp files it will also create a temp file
starting with N used as an indirect file in linking the Y... files into the
resultant binary. Although the N... file apparently has its name tied to the
time or some other variant...

For example, breaking octcomp before the final link step:

TEMPORARY FILES FOR PGMR.QSSDEV,PUB

ACCOUNT=  QSSDEV      GROUP=  PUB     

FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                  SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
NA31354           256B  FA          15       4095   1      256  1  8 (TEMP)
Y0        NMOBJ   128W  FB         132       4095   1      256  1 32 (TEMP)
Y1        NMOBJ   128W  FB         136       4095   1      256  1 32 (TEMP)
Y2        NMOBJ   128W  FB         531       4095   1      768  3 32 (TEMP)
Y3        NMOBJ   128W  FB         389       4095   1      512  2 32 (TEMP)
Y4        NMOBJ   128W  FB         503       4095   1      512  2 32 (TEMP)
Y5        NMOBJ   128W  FB         143       4095   1      256  1 32 (TEMP)
Y6        NMOBJ   128W  FB         291       4095   1      512  2 32 (TEMP)
Y7        NMOBJ   128W  FB         650       4095   1      768  3 32 (TEMP)
Y8        NMOBJ   128W  FB         760       4095   1      768  3 32 (TEMP)
Y9        NMOBJ   128W  FB         434       4095   1      512  2 32 (TEMP)
YA        NMOBJ   128W  FB         629       4095   1      768  3 32 (TEMP)
YB        NMOBJ   128W  FB         183       4095   1      256  1 32 (TEMP)
YC        NMOBJ   128W  FB         508       4095   1      512  2 32 (TEMP)
YD        NMOBJ   128W  FB         381       4095   1      512  2 32 (TEMP)
YE        NMOBJ   128W  FB         622       4095   1      768  3 32 (TEMP)

PUB.QSSDEV>print na31354
Y0
Y1
Y2
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
Y7
Y8
Y9
Ya
Yb
Yc
Yd
Ye

The link:

HP Link Editor/iX (HP30315A.06.24) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Co 1986

LinkEd> link from=^Na31354;to=<your binary>
 
oct error total: 0

duane

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