Who Is the Owner of This File?

During your work, you can grant various users authority to your files. These users can then create aliases to the files. Other users can also grant you authority to their files, and you can create aliases to those files in your directories.

Later, you may forget who owns a file and what authority the owner has granted you. To check, you can use the SHARE option of the FILELIST command.

Enter the following command:

filel fish tales c

Your screen will look like this:

 yourid   FILELIST A0  V 108  Trunc=108 Size=1 Line=1 Col=1 Alt=0
Directory = VMSYSU:yourid.LEISURE.SUMMER
Cmd   Filename Filetype Fm Format Lrecl    Records     Blocks   Date     Time
_     FISH     TALES    C1 F         80          1          1  5/10/90 10:59:36















1= Help       2= Refresh  3= Quit   4= Cancel      5= Sort(dir)   6= Sort(size)
7= Backward   8= Forward  9= FL /n 10= Share      11= XEDIT/LIST 12= Cursor

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                                                            X E D I T  1 File

Because you did not specify any options, you will see the default FILELIST screen, the STATS screen.

Each of the FILELIST screens contains several PF keys you can use to get further information. From FILELIST STATS, you can use PF10 to enter the FILELIST SHARE screen. PF10 is a toggle key. If you press it repeatedly, you will toggle between the FILELIST STATS screen and the FILELIST SHARE screen.

Press PF10 now to see the FILELIST SHARE screen.

 yourid   FILELIST A0  V 149  Trunc=149 Size=1 Line=1 Col=1 Alt=3
Directory = VMSYSU:yourid.LEISURE.SUMMER
Cmd   Filename Filetype Fm Owner    Type    R W
_     FISH     TALES    C1 MAINT    ALIAS   X -















1= Help       2= Refresh  3= Quit   4= Cancel      5= Sort(dir)   6= Auth
7= Backward   8= Forward  9= Alias 10= Stats      11= XEDIT/LIST 12= Cursor

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                                                            X E D I T  1 File

The column labeled Owner shows you that MAINT is the owner of the base file for your FISH TALES alias. The Type column shows you that FISH TALES is an alias. The last two columns show you what authority you have to the file. There is an X in the first column indicating that you have read authority. The dash in the W column indicates that you do not have write authority to the file.

You can view the FILELIST SHARE screen at any time to determine the owner of a specific file. To get directly to the FILELIST SHARE screen, you can use the SHARE option of FILELIST when you enter the command at the command line. For example, you would have gotten directly to the FILELIST SHARE screen if you entered:

filel fish tales c (share

For now, do not quit the FILELIST SHARE screen.