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Occasionally when moving an OpenVMS system to an emulated environment there are cases where device names change (typically disk devices).  The "right way" to set up logicals is to define a single logical for a device, especially when dealing with disks, to represents the device name and use it in all other logicals.  This leaves just one logical to change when the device changes.  However, everyone takes short cuts at some point and device names can become embedded in long forgotten command procedures, leaving definitions like so:

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