  Searchlist Directories and Editors? 
 The Question is:
 
When I edit SYLOGIN.COM, it writes it back to SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR] instead of
 where it came from: SYS$SYSCOMMON:[SYSMGR], and thus the edited version does
 not get used during login.  How can I prevent this from happening?
 
 
 The Answer is :
    Rathole alert!
 
 
&amp;gt;    The customer must be using EDT.
    	If we ship it, they'll use it . . . (I still use EDT, also).
 
&amp;gt;    This behaviour is a limitation in the EDT editor, which doesn't
&amp;gt;    understand file specifications containing search lists. The limitation
&amp;gt;    was removed when EDT was superseeded by TPU &amp;amp; EVE in 1984.
 
    	EDT deals with searchlists correctly.  It'll write out the file
    to the directory from which it was read.  I suspect the customer has
    a file in the root-specific directory, and that copy is being read
    and written, NOT the copy in sys$common.
 
&amp;gt;    Note the dates. EDT was obsolete 20 years ago! Please use EVE.
 
    EVE was first shipped as part of VAX/VMS V4.2 (when SMG became
    available), which later than 1984, I think.
 Answer written or last revised on  24-NOV-2003 
