Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!rde From: rde@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: THE DUMP file Message-ID: <4113@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 24 Dec 87 21:06:53 GMT References: <12360808632.31.STEINBERGER@KL.SRI.COM> <871223163244.2.DP@BANFF.PALLADIAN.COM> Reply-To: rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager) Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 10 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: You can't really use the dump file for anything else...but you can use the page file as a dump file (sort of). See the System Management Guide for more details. Snag is you have to read the dump out of the page file on system startup to 'unlock' the space it used; but that can be made routine. -- Bob Eager rde@ukc.UUCP ...!mcvax!ukc!rde Phone: +44 227 764000 ext 7589