Funny thing about that.

The designers of MPE/iX did a "really" good job in solving that problem.

All spool files restored get a NEW spool file number.  Regardless of
what is on tape.

(Then it may be a good idea when restoring to get a list of the
results.)

The only problem I can foresee is that most sites have an upper limit of
say, #O99999 before the numbers wrap around.

If you should happen to restore 100,000 spool files in one sitting
without printing them off, who knows?

(Now I KNOW someone's with a test machine is going to try this, just
wait.)

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

BT







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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shahan, Ray
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:26 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Restore spoolfile
> 
> 
> I may be off base here, but if you do a restore to 
> out.hpspool, you may run into a problem where the spool ID 
> you are restoring already exists on the system (spool id was 
> reset).  Been too many years since I did a restore, so take 
> this as just a WAG.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ray Shahan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Wonsil
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 10:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Restore spoolfile
> 
> Kim asks:
> > Is there any reason I cannot restore the file into 
> OUT.HPSPOOL off the 
> > backup tape and then be able to access it ?
> 
> I honestly can't recall the reasoning right now, but I would 
> restore the spoolfile to a local group and then:
> 
> :SPOOLF <filename>;PRINT
> 
> where filename is the restored file, O1234. You can also add 
> ;DEV=;PRI, etc as needed. Do a :HELP SPOOLF for all of the options.
> 
> Mark W.
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