Arguments

 

tabnam

   OpenVMS usage:logical_name
   type:         character-coded text string
   access:       read only
   mechanism:    by 32- or 64-bit descriptor-fixed-length string
                 descriptor
   Name of a logical name table or a list of tables to be searched
   for the logical name to be deleted. The tabnam argument is the
   32- or 64-bit address of a descriptor that points to the table
   name. This argument is required.

   If tabnam is not the name of a logical name table, it is assumed
   to be a logical name and is translated iteratively until either
   the name of a logical name table is found or the number of
   translations allowed by the system has been performed.

   If tabnam translates to the name of a list of tables, $DELLNM
   does the following:

   o  If you specify the lognam argument, $DELLNM searches (in
      order) each table in the list until it finds the first table
      that contains the specified logical name. If the logical
      name is at the specified access mode, $DELLNM then deletes
      occurrences of the logical name at the specified access mode
      and at outer access modes within the table.

   o  If you do not specify the lognam argument, $DELLNM deletes all
      of the logical names at the specified access mode or at outer
      access modes from the first table in the list whose access
      mode is equal to or less privileged than the caller's access
      mode.
 

lognam

   OpenVMS usage:logical_name
   type:         character-coded text string
   access:       read only
   mechanism:    by 32- or 64-bit descriptor-fixed-length string
                 descriptor
   Logical name to be deleted. The lognam argument is the 32- or
   64-bit address of a descriptor that points to the logical name
   string.
 

acmode

   OpenVMS usage:access_mode
   type:         byte (unsigned)
   access:       read only
   mechanism:    by 32- or 64-bit reference
   Access mode to be used in the delete operation. The acmode
   argument is the 32- or 64-bit address of a byte containing this
   access mode. The $PSLDEF macro defines symbolic names for the
   four access modes.

   You determine the access mode actually used in the delete
   operation by maximizing the access mode of the caller with the
   access mode specified by the acmode argument; that is, the less
   privileged of the two is used.

   However, if you have SYSNAM privilege, the delete operation is
   executed at the specified access mode regardless of the caller's
   access mode.

   If you omit this argument or specify it as 0, the access mode
   of the caller is used in the delete operation. The access mode
   used in the delete operation determines which tables are used and
   which names are deleted.