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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Question about MAIL and DEL(copy).....
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 08:33:48 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1h3vhcINNn2j@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <AADF0C3ACCDF000258@EGFRCUVX>
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-
- In article <AADF0C3ACCDF000258@EGFRCUVX>, SABRY@SHEBIN.EG writes:
- >
- >HELLO ALL........
- >I am Sabry Kotob from Egypt, Our system MV3400 by 12.00Mb with VMS 5.2-1.
- >I am sending to you needing a help.
- >Does anyone know what the mail$xxxxx.mai files are that are created by mail.
- >They don't seem to be related to the number of messages in various mail folders.
- >Just wondering. ok..................
-
- Sabry, given that you're asking so many questions of this newsgroup, WHY THE
- HELL HAVEN'T YOU SUBSCRIBED TO IT? The question you asked was just answered at
- length. To recap:
-
- MAIL.MAI is an indexed file. Short (under 3 blocks, or about that) MAIL
- messages are stored in the indexed file. Longer messages are stored in
- external files (do a DIR/FULL from within MAIL to see examples of both), with a
- record in MAIL.MAI that points to them.
-
- >Question DCL ...please,
- >When make command copy by the following:-
- >$ copy sab.txt ali.txt;1/log
- >This appears to me a messages:
- >%COPY-E-OPENOUT,error opening dia0:[users.engineer.sabry]ali.txt;1 as output.
- >-RMS-E-FEX, file already exists, not superseded
- >%copy-W-NOTCOPIED,
- >Any ideas????
-
- Yup. The file dia0:[users.engineer.sabry]sab.txt;1 was not created because it
- already exists. This time I *DO* intend to be rude: You can't speak English.
- You *REALLY* need to hire someone who speaks English to help you. The error
- messages which you were obviously incapable of reading told you, quite
- explicitly, that the new file was NOT created because the file in question
- already existed. I don't know how to translate that into your native language,
- and I doubt that there are very many people participating on comp.os.vms who
- could.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-