Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> Was it Fred White?  :-)     If you want to get him started, speak with him
>> about partial store/restore operations...
>
>I first met Fred when I started working on STORE (MPE IV) at HP...
>I went downstairs to the IMAGE group and said "I think STORE should
>automatically backup the entire database if you specify the root
>file".  I found out Fred had "been there, argued for that" already!

I met Fred BEFORE you did...  But then, again, you are younger than I am...
:-)

Anyhow, Fred is consistently WAY ahead of the rest of us when it comes to
"minor technical details" like this.  It pays to listen to Fred.


>Although we both agreed, getting permission to change that aspect
>of STORE proved impossible (this was back in 1979).


What "proved impossible" (back in 1979) eventually became possible (at
least for the MPE-syntax files of a database)!  What a good omen.

All that needs to be done now is to "embrace and extend" so that STORE
utilities will also include Posix-syntax files in backups of IMAGE
databases.


Alfredo