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Subject: Re: SET FILE/ENTRY
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Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 11:49:00 EDT
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Subject: Re: SET FILE/ENTRY

As Mr. Oberman suggests, be careful when deleting files that you have created
aliases for.  Make sure that you use SET FILE/REMOVE to get rid of the extra
names.  The same restrictions apply in "removing" file names as do in deleting
files.  That is, you don't want to get rid of all of the names.

An interesting sideline (or at least I think so)...

We have a large cluster.  One day I noticed that our system disk incremental
backup was getting very huge.  Three or four 2400 foot tapes at 6250, in
fact.  The problem, of course, was that the syscommon directories (which
point to v4common) were all getting backed up as different directories.
Each time the CDD would get changed, we'd get about 6 copies of it.  My
solution was to use /EXCLUDE on the backup to ignore the individual syscommon
directories.  I suppose that there is no economical way for DEC to fix this,
but it certainly was a surprise.

Dave Higham
Signetics Corp.
Orem, UT