1.$ CREATE/NAME_TABLE TEST_TAB $ SHOW LOGICAL TEST_TAB %SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name TEST_TAB $ SHOW LOGICAL/TABLE=LNM$PROCESS_DIRECTORY TEST_TAB In this example, the CREATE/NAME_TABLE command creates a new table called TEST_TAB. By default, the name of the table is entered in the process directory. The first SHOW LOGICAL command does not find the name TEST_TAB because it does not, by default, search the process directory table. You must use the /TABLE qualifier to request that the process directory be searched. 2.$ CREATE/NAME_TABLE/ATTRIBUTES=CONFINE EXTRA $ DEFINE/TABLE=EXTRA MYDISK DISK4: $ DEFINE/TABLE=LNM$PROCESS_DIRECTORY LNM$FILE_DEV - _$ EXTRA, LNM$PROCESS, LNM$JOB, LNM$GROUP, LNM$SYSTEM $ TYPE MYDISK:[COHEN]EXAMPLE1.LIS This example creates a new logical name table called EXTRA that is created with the CONFINE attribute. Therefore, the EXTRA table and the names it contains will not be copied to subprocesses. Next, the logical name MYDISK is placed into the table EXTRA. To use the name MYDISK in file specifications, you must make sure that the table EXTRA is searched when RMS parses file specifications. To do this, you can define a process-private version of the logical name LNM$FILE_DEV to include the name EXTRA as one of its equivalence strings. (The system uses LNM$FILE_DEV to determine the tables to search during logical name translation for device or file specifications, and will use the process-private version of the logical name before using the default system version.) After you define LNM$FILE_ DEV, the system searches the following tables during logical name translation: EXTRA, your process table, your job table, your group table, and the system table. Now, you can use the name MYDISK in a file specification and the equivalence string DISK4 will be substituted.