1 BIND

	Format:	BIND service-name/qualifier

The BIND command creates a device associated with a virtual 
service and creates a logical name pointing to the
device. The BIND command also displays the logical name that
it created. 

2 service-name

The name associated with the virtual service.


2 /ASYNCHRONOUS

	Format:	/[NO]ANSYNCHRONOUS

This qualifier specifies wheter or not write requests will complete
immediately.  If /ASYNCHROUNOUS is specified, the write request is 
completed to the user immediately.  If /NOASYNCHRONOUS is specified,
the user request is not completed until all I/O to the physical disk 
over the network is completed.

The default value is /NOASYNCHRONOUS.

2 /CONNECT

If /CONNECT is specified, LADCP will immediately attempt a network 
connection to the service and return the status of the attempt.

2 /DISK

This qualifier indicates that the service to bind to is a virtual
disk container.  This is the default for the BIND command

2 /GROUP

	Format: /GROUP

The /GROUP qualifier places the logical name created by
the BIND command in the group logical name table.

This qualifier requires GRPNAM privilege.

2 /PASSWORD

	Format:	/PASSWORD="password-string"

This qualifier specifies a password associated with the
virtual disk. 

2 /PERMANENT

	Format:	/[NO]PERMANENT

The /PERMANENT qualifier will create a client device UCB that can only
be deleted with the UNBIND command of the LADCP utility.  The default 
is /NOPERMANENT which will cause a client device UCB to be deleted when
the device Reference Count goes to 0 following a DISMOUNT/UNLOAD
command.  This qualifier must be used when performing backups to
InfoServer Client devices that contain removable media and will span
more than one  piece of media.

2 /SYSTEM

	Format: /SYSTEM

The /SYSTEM qualifier places the logical name created by 
the BIND command in the system logical name table.

This qualifier requires SYSNAM privilege.

2 /TAPE

The /TAPE qualifier indicates that the service to bind to is a
virtual tape service.

3 /ALLOCATE

	Format:	/[NO]ALLOCATE

This qualifier controls the LastPort Tape session behaviour.  The
default of /ALLOCATE will leave a session to an InfoServer tape service
active until the MAD device is unbound with the UNBIND verb of LADCP or
the LADCP DEALLOCATE command is issued.  The use of /NOALLOCATE will
cause the session to be disconnected when a IO$_UNLOAD or IO$_AVAILABLE
is issued to the client device.  The use of /ALLOCATE is required to
perform multi-volume backups.

2 /UNIT

	Format:	/UNIT=n 

This qualifier will attempt to create a client device with the unit
number specified.  For disk client devices the format of the client
device is _DADn: and for tape client devices the format is _MADn:.  If
the unit specified already exists an error is returned.  The default
behaviour is to assign a unit number starting at 1 and increasing by 1
each time a unit is created.  Valid unit numbers are positive integers
in the range of 1 thru 32767.

examples:

LADCP> bind/unit=354 fred
%LADCP-I-BIND, service bound to logical unit DAD$FRED (_DAD354:)

LADCP> bind/unit=4 harry
%LADCP-E-UNITEXISTS, device _DAD4: exists

2 /WRITE_ENABLE

	Format:	/[NO]WRITE_ENABLE

This qualifier specifies if the service is to be write enabled or not.
For disk clients the default value of /NOWRITE_ENABLED means that the 
service is read-only. For tape clients the default value of /WRITE_ENABLED
means that the service is both read and write.

The qualifier is negatable.

2 example

$ LADCP BIND CD_DOC_00661

This command creates a read-only logical disk pointed to by 
the logical name DAD$CD_DOC_00661.

$ LADCP BIND VIRTUAL_DISK/WRITE/NOASYNC

This command will create a device for the service name of
VIRTUAL_DISK. It will create a logical name DAD$VIRTUAL_DISK
that will point to this device.  It also instruct that any write
request performed will written before the write request completes. 

$ LADCP BIND/TAPE/CONNECT TAPE_DRIVE

This command creates a read/write logical tape pointed to by 
the logical name MAD$TAPE_DRIVE.  The LADCP utility will
attempt to form a connection to the service immediately.