Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!CORNELLC!SBR From: SBR@CORNELLC.BITNET (Steve Roberts) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.vmxa-l Subject: Re: R2.1 Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 90 00:27:43 GMT Sender: VM/XA Discussion List Reply-To: VM/XA Discussion List Lines: 19 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 5 Feb 90 17:59:41 EST from >>Martha, I believe that in CMS6 the assembler actually uses workfiles >>in SFS. Yes, I know that's hard to believe. > >Must be a nasty rumor. I haven't looked at the code, but I can assemble >things under CMS6 with no SFS server machines logged on without any >problems. Perhaps if you actually have a SFS directory accessed, ASSEMBLE >will make use of it for work files, but that seems like a perfectly >reasonable thing to try to do. Except for having to use it to apply >service to GCS/VTAM/et al (and there may be ways around that), an SP6 >system can be run without SFS with no ill side effects...we've been doing >it for going on 6 months now. We're XA, not SP6, but I suspect that the above is due to the fact that, if you have an SFS directory accessed, QUERY DISK MAX will ALWAYS return the filemode of the SFS directory, even if you've got an empty full-pack A-disk. Sigh. Steve