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