Sun, 17 Nov 1991 20:15:08 +0100
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1991 12:11:31 EST Stan Horwitz <OASIS@TEMPLEVM> said:
>Is there a way I can check to see exactly what the maximum number of
>reader files that this sysem can store?
CP QUERY MAXSPOOL SYSTEM. If you are not authorized to issue this command
and neither is LISTSERV, you will have to ask the systems people.
>how many more it could store if a system modification were made.
Only your systems people can answer this question. You can have zillions
of spool files if you have enough real memory for the control blocks. You
can have a whole bunch of files and find out your system has become
totally unusable because most of the memory is used for SFDBK's. It all
depends on how much real memory you have, the efficiency of your paging
system and what kind of workload you have. However, the structural limit
of 9900 spool files is gone.
>This addresses the problem of non-technical people having difficulty
>with the new procedure. We also support only one mail program on this
>machine so that isn't a problem.
Then you have very nice users. Let's face it, before the change the user
just typed MAIL and he got all his mail. Now he has to use RDRLIST and
receive a number of separate notebooks under different names; his mail is
arbitrarily split on day boundaries, such that examining a followup to
mail posted on a particular day requires exiting and re-entering MAIL
with another argument. Assuming I used MAIL, I certainly wouldn't be
happy if this were done to me; I'd write an EXEC right away to receive
all the notebooks from the reader, in the right order, and append them to
UNREAD NOTEBOOK. Since I read mail with RDRLIST, I would actually be
infuriated if my nice reader files were placed into a disk file, thus
forcing me to use a different user interface, but that's another matter
:-)
Eric
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