On Tue, 6 Apr 1993 11:38:04 EDT Jim Gerland - Network User Support said:
>I have 61 minidisks that I am asking LISTSERV to check at boot time.
>I tried to add a 62nd one and now get the following error:
>
>26 Mar 1993 08:41:48 Error 1 from GLOBALV trying to store variable
>CHECKMDISK from table LISTSERV.
>
>Any ideas?  Is 61 a magic number of the upper limit?
 
Sounds like you've run into the 255 byte maximum for a GLOBALV
variable.
 
           Length('CHECKMDISK') + 4*62 = 257 > 255
           Length('CHECKMDISK') + 4*61 = 253 < 255
 
 
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