VMS Help DEALLOCATE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Makes an allocated device available to other processes (but
    does not deassign any logical name associated with the device).
    DEALLOCATE does not deallocate devices that are in use.

    Format

      DEALLOCATE  device-name[:]

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