At 21:29 03/07/2000 -0700, Bruce Toback wrote:

>Volume Utility A.02.00, (C) Hewlett-Packard Co., 1987. All Rights Reserved.

This is very curious indeed.  I suspect MIRVOL comes with disc mirroring.
CONTIGVOL should be available in VOLUTIL, whether or not you have
disc mirroring.

For example, on my test system, running MPE/iX 6.5, I get:

TEST:volutil

 Mirvutil  A.01.00, (C) Hewlett-Packard Co., 1991. All Rights Reserved.
volutil: help contigvol

Description:

 The CONTIGVOL command creates contiguous free disk space on a volume.
 The master volume of the volume set in which this volume is a member
 must be mounted in the MASTER state as displayed by the :DSTAT command.
                <rest of screen snipped>

TEST:showme
USER: #S39,MANAGER.SYS,PUB      (NOT IN BREAK)
RELEASE: C.65.00   MPE/iX HP31900 C.25.06   USER VERSION: C.65.00
CURRENT: TUE, JUL  4, 2000,  5:05 PM
LOGON:   TUE, JUL  4, 2000,  5:03 PM

And on my production system, (MPE/iX 5.5 PP4) I get:

:volutil

 Mirvutil  A.01.00, (C) Hewlett-Packard Co., 1991. All Rights Reserved.
volutil: help contigvol

Description:

 The CONTIGVOL command creates contiguous free disk space on a volume.
 The master volume of the volume set in which this volume is a member
 must be mounted in the MASTER state as displayed by the :DSTAT command.
                        <snip>

:showme
USER: #S9245,MANAGER.SYS,PUB      (NOT IN BREAK)
RELEASE: C.55.00   MPE/iX HP31900 C.05.08   USER VERSION: C.55.00
CURRENT: TUE, JUL  4, 2000,  5:06 PM
LOGON:   TUE, JUL  4, 2000,  5:05 PM

For a start, why do I get access to CONTIGVOL and you don't?  And why
does my brand-newly-installed MPE/iX 6.5 on my test system still have VOLUTIL
A.01.00 ..... same as my old 5.5 system?

I've got what I want, but this would seem to need explanation.

Cheers,
Ron Burnett
Women's & Children's Health
Melbourne, Australia