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From: PHULVER%OCVAXA@VB.CC.CMU.EDU (Barron Hulver x8290)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: memory performance clarification of /header
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Date: 8 Feb 88 14:49:00 GMT
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Jeffrey del Papa writes:
     ..."header resident means it reads the index file entry into paged
         pool"...

I thought header resident meant that the image file was opened (therefore
an implicit /OPEN) and the first block of the file (512 bytes) was read
into memory.  If you do an ANALYZE/IMAGE the "header" is the first thing
displayed.  See also VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures 1984 page 468.

...Barron Hulver                        (216)  775-8290
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