Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:54:04 +0200 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=12 e484 during system() On my alpha.polarhome.com account, I get an error from executing :call system("dir") The error message is E484: Can't open file tmp:vo[...].txt This is because the output of the system() goes into a temp file, whose name is determined via vim_tempname() as tmp:v....txt. What is the "tmp" supposed to reference? - No error is produced if I have a logical "tmp" defined. - At work (vim7.2), I have no such logical, and yet I can run system() Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:11:45 +0100 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=12#t24 Could perhaps vim_tempname() return sys$scratch:v...txt instead of tmp:v...txt ? Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:12:37 +0100 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=12#t25 The TMP logical is desired to be defined as it is used in many other cases like printing etc. From other side the sys$scratch is not always writeable by the user. Therfore the best solution would be to define the TMP logical the points to a user writeable directory. I agree that this fact should be more emphasized in the os_vms.txt and other VMS related documentation. Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:17:22 +0100 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=12#t32 How it is possible that at work I can :echo system("dir") successfully even without having the TMP logical defined? Any clue? > sh log tmp %SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name TMP in vim: :echo $tmp -> nothing Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:08:36 +0100 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=12#t41