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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
  2. From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
  4. Subject: <None>
  5. Message-ID: <3638@mitech.com>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 13:32:04 GMT
  7. Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
  8. Lines: 14
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  10. Is there a way to implement "execute only" logical names?
  11. That is, a logical name that cannot be translated by the
  12. user for the purpose of looking at the value, but may be
  13. otherwise used.
  14.  
  15. e.g.
  16.  
  17.    $ define/system FOO$TEMP "HOST""USERNAME PASSWORD""::DISK$FOO:[TEMP]"
  18.  
  19. But where you would want to hide the username and password
  20. from $ SHOW LOG FOO$TEMP
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