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Summary of New and Enhanced Features
This section provides a quick summary of new and enhanced features
accessible through MPE/iX system intrinsics. Refer to later sections in
the chapter for more detailed information about these features.
New features
* Hierarchical directory files
* MPE/iX byte-stream files
* Renaming a file across account boundaries
* Append mode (versus append access)
Enhanced features
* Security features
* Object ownership
* Closing a file
* Listing file information
* Terminating file name strings
* Accessing a file by its file name
* The intrinsics listed in Table 4-1.
Table 4-1. Enhanced MPE/iX Intrinsics
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| Intrinsic Name | Summary of Changes |
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| FCHECK | Provides additional file system error codes. |
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| FCLOSE | Supports hierarchical directories and byte- stream files. |
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| FCONTROL | Supports hierarchical directories and byte- stream files. |
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| FFILEINFO | Enhanced and new item numbers return information about |
| | hierarchical directories and byte-stream files. Supports |
| | HFS syntax. |
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| FGETINFO | Enhanced parameters return information about byte-stream |
| | files but only limited information about hierarchical |
| | directories. Does not support HFS syntax. |
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| FLABELINFO | Enhanced and new item numbers return information about |
| | hierarchical directories and byte-stream files. Supports |
| | HFS syntax. |
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| FLOCK | Supports byte-stream files. Hierarchical directories cannot |
| | be locked. |
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| FOPEN | Supports HFS syntax. Creates and opens byte-stream files |
| | and opens hierarchical directories. Cannot create |
| | hierarchical directories. |
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| FPARSE | Does not support HFS syntax. |
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| FPOINT | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| FREAD | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| FREADDIR | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| FREADLABEL | Supports byte-stream files. |
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Table 4-1. Enhanced MPE/iX Intrinsics (cont.)
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| Intrinsic Name | Summary of Changes |
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| FREADSEEK | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| FRENAME | Supports HFS syntax. Supports renaming of files across |
| | account boundaries. |
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| FSPACE | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| FWRITE | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| FWRITEDIR | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| FWRITELABEL | Supports byte-stream files. |
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| HPACDINFO | Supports HFS syntax. Provides new and enhanced security |
| | features. |
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| HPACDPUT | Supports HFS syntax. Provides new and enhanced security |
| | features. |
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| HPCICOMMAND | Supports up to 512 chars in command buffer. |
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| HPDEVCONTROL | Supports setting data compression. |
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| HPDEVCREATE | Allows creation of FIFO and device link files. |
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| HPFOPEN | Supports HFS syntax. Creates and opens both hierarchical |
| | directories and byte-stream files. |
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| HPPIPE | Allows the creation of pipe files. |
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| PRINTFILEINFO | Supports HFS syntax. Supports both hierarchical directories |
| | and byte-stream files. |
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| STACKDUMP | Limited support of HFS syntax. Special considerations for |
| | file name terminating characters. |
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