[HECnet] Ugh

[Brian Hechinger]

On 1/15/2013 12:52 PM, G. wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:40:37 -0500, you wrote:

$ SHO LOG VIM
%SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name VIM
$ SHO LOG TMP
%SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name TMP
$ SHO SYM VIM
%DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling
$ sho sym/glo vim
%DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling
Obviously things aren't getting setup correctly. I wonder if I put it
all in the correct spots.
Please, don't take this as an offense (I'm not English native, so I do not
know how this would "sound" in English), but... After editing SYLOGICALS and
SYLOGIN have you rebooted the system or have you executed those definition
commands by typing them at a command prompt?

You can't offend me, I'm an idiot when it comes to VMS. :)

If you just put the definitions in the files, but haven't done anything more,
they were never considered: SYLOGICALS is read during startup and SYLOGIN
during process login.

You can define manually both logicals and symbols at the command line prompt
instead of rebooting the whole thing. But they have to be in the SY* files
too, or after the next reboot you'll have to do the manual typing again.

Yes, I did reboot. I like to always reboot after making system wide changes just to make sure I did it correctly. Nothing is worse than having to reboot and then nothing works. :)

-brian