At 19:52 18.07.1997 -0700, John wrote:
>I remember this from my Series 64 days.  I seem to recall that if we
>'seeded' the directory (by building dummy files A,B,C,D... etc.) we
>could get more of the files to restore.  Anyone else remember doing
>this?

Oh yes, this bring up memories (although I'm only 6+ years with MPE ;-)

I recall having used multiple RESTOREs with several "interleaved"
indirect files to fill the directory blocks in such a way (order)
that all the files finally came back to disc.

Don't recall the details but it was something like use TAPLIS to get
"RESTORE;;LISTDIR" and then use editor while-loops to seperate this
into "cleverly selected file groups" for 1st and 2nd RESTORE pass...

Lars (hopefully no need to dig this out again)