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From: gregory@BRL-LVAX.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: key words... MAIL and DISK QUOTA UTILITY
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 18:26:39 EST
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Hello out there,

I have a couple of separate questions regarding mail and the disk quota utility:

RE: Mail
While in mail and reading a mail message, occasionally the text at the
top of the screen will scroll out of sight after pressing RETURN to read more
of the message.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I have found that
if before you enter mail you do a $ set term/page=n, where n is somewhere around
20, this will stop the scrolling of the screen but I consider this a bandaid
and not a fix.  Remember to $ set term/page=24 when you get out of mail.

RE: Disk Quota Utility
We are considering turning disk quotas on our user disks and I would
like to get some info from you regarding the pros and cons of the utility
such as I/O performance considerations, how/when does overdraft work,
how fast does the quota data base get updated, etc.  As far as overdraft
and how it works, I do not understand the following statement in the System 
Manager's Reference Manual (V4.4):
"If the rejected operation is an extension of a file opened for write, a user
 with overdraft can perform the operation by retrying it."
Is this "retrying it" automatically handled by RMS for say a FORTRAN program
that has a file opened for write?

RE: Our Site Configuration
We are running VMS V4.4 and MicroVMS V4.4.  We have a 780 and an 8600 clustered
together and DECneted to two Micro VAX II's and one 730.

Any and all info is greatly appreciated.  As always, if you can point me towards
the proper manual(s) that actually answer these question that will be just fine.


Thanks,

Dan Gregory
ARPA: GREGORY@BRL
Phone: 301-278-3485
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