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From: dwl10@amdahl.UUCP (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Mystery of the vanishing file
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 08:02:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 08:02:33 1985
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>                  ..... 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.

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                               Dave Lowrey

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