FILES_INFO - Utility to display processes having a particular file open

Excerpt from the FILES_INFO freeware_readme.txt file

FILES_INFO accepts a filename on the DCL command line and displays all the processes that have the file open for reading/writing.

Origins

The original author of FILES_INFO was Edward A. Heinrich, who apparently contributed it to the VMS Freeware collection. Since then (1994), it was modified/updated by Hunter Goatley to work on Alpha systems. The kits offered here were further modified to work on IA64 systems, and to deal with ODS5 extended file names. Thanks to H. Becker, who provided the non-Macro code using exe_std$cvt_ipid_to_epid().

FILES_INFO 3.0

FILES_INFO 3.0 Kit

• Freeware release notes (as included in the source-only and complete kits, below):

  /ftp/files_info/files_info-030/aaareadme.doc

  /ftp/files_info/files_info-030/aaareadme.too

  /ftp/files_info/files_info-030/freeware_readme.txt

• Source-only kit, including:
  • Source.

  /ftp/files_info/files_info-030/files_info-030_src.zip

• Complete kit, including:
  • Source.
  • Alpha objects and executable (built on VMS V8.4 with HP C V7.3-010).
  • IA64 objects and executable (built on VMS V8.4 with HP C V7.3-019).
  • VAX objects and executable (built on VMS V7.3 with Compaq C V6.4-005).
  • VAX objects and executable (built on VMS V5.4 with VAX C V3.1-051).

  /ftp/files_info/files_info-030/files_info-030_vms.zip

Patches for FILES_INFO V3.0

Changes like these are expected to be included in the next version of FILES_INFO.

• 2016-11-23    Replacement file to expand "READS" and "WRITES" field widths from 7 to 9. Also makes changing the fmt[] format string easier.

  /ftp/files_info/files_info-030/files_info.c

FILES_INFO Archive

All versions of FILES_INFO beginning with V3.0, including older and/or experimental ones, may be found at the archive: /ftp/files_info/

FTP access is also available at: ftp://ftp.antinode.info/files_info/

Versions of FILES_INFO older than V3.0 may be found in various VMS Freeware collections around the Internet.