Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@amdahl.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: Mystery of the vanishing file Message-ID: <1876@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 08:02:33 EDT Article-I.D.: amdahl.1876 Posted: Mon Aug 5 08:02:33 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 05:07:31 EDT References: <789@burl.UUCP> <436@aesat.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Columbia MD Lines: 17 > ..... Also, unless you have REL or USR files on the disk, > validate it after each few file purges....... You CAN safely do a Validate with USR and REL files on the disk. The only time you don't want to validate is when blocks are being used, that aren't allocated in the BAM. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lowrey "To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question.... ....or is it?" ...!(be those of the author and not necessarily those of his most eminent employer. ]