Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Message-ID: <1916@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 12:13:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.1916 Posted: Fri Sep 14 12:13:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:29:49 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 17 From: mtxinu!politik!paul@BERKELEY (Paul Vixie) ----- News saved at Fri, 14-Sep-84 04:28:40 PDT (i need a more complete path to respond via mail, so... hi mom!) i have seen shared images used for data sharing by many mains, one with a sub. i duplicated the effort, once, when searching for an alternative to global sections. if you wish, i can mail you the (.C, .MAR, .COM) source for it. a suggestion, though: don't bother. in our environment, we need to do our testing in one group and production in another; since shared images must be installed, there can only be one per system with a given name. use global-sections; they work, are fast, can be backed up dynamic- ally. the only disadvantage is having to map them at run time, and one gets used to this. Paul Vixie {sun!texsun | ucbvax!mtxinu | dual!ptsfa} !politik!paul