Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual

Considerations
• The output file name always includes a node name regardless of whether the input name was
in network form. Note that the node name in the output is independent of the =_DEFAULTS
DEFINE, as is the node name in the input. This is because the default node name in an internal
file name is the node that the caller is running on, not the value in the =_DEFAULTS DEFINE.
• If the node number that is specified as part of oldfilename does not designate a node that
is known to the local system, an error value of 18 is returned. In this case, the value returned
in filename includes a printable string such as "\255," showing the node number that was
supplied as input in place of a valid node name.
• When converting the process file name of a named or an unnamed process,
OLDFILENAME_TO_FILENAME_ looks up the process in a system table and it might send a
system message. An error 14 is returned if the process does not exist.
Related Programming Manual
For programming information about the OLDFILENAME_TO_FILENAME_ procedure, see the
Guardian Application Conversion Guide.
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