VMS Help MERGE, Output File Qualifiers, /RELATIVE, Example  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  $ SORT/KEY=(POS:1,SIZ:80) STATS.DAT SUMMARY.LIS/RELATIVE

      Because the input file STATS.DAT is not a relative file and
      the output file, SUMMARY.LIS, will be, /RELATIVE qualifies the
      output file specification.