QUERYNM has been around for a while, 4.0 I think is when we noticed it.  HP
recommended that we not do on 4.0 what you are suggesting.  What do you know
that has changed?
 
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>From: owner-hp3000-l%UTCVM.UTC.EDU
>To: Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L
>Subject: QUERY still CM on C.50.03
>Date: Saturday, December 30, 1995 10:43PM
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>Poster:       Ken Sletten b894 c331 x2525 <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      QUERY still CM on C.50.03
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>Almost overlooked something after our new 959KS
>went online today:  Even after installing Express-3
>release of MPE (C.50.03), the QUERY in PUB.SYS
>is still CM.  You have to RENAME or PURGE
>QUERY;  then  RENAME QUERYNM,QUERY  to
>get native mode.
>
>I know the Image Lab did this originally to make
>absolutely sure there wouldn't be any backward
>compatibility problems, but thought that was just
>for the initial release;  and that QUERY would have
>been shipped as the NM version on Express-3.
>Not yet.  I would suggest HP do that for MPE 5.5,
>unless some corner-case backward compatibility
>problem has actually been identified.
>
>Anyway, not a big deal;  long as you remember
>to do the RENAME.  I would have forgotten if it had
>not been that I couldn't resist doing a serial read of
>a large Image dataset to see how long that would
>take on the 959, and noticed a lot of CM switching
>going on......
>
>Ken Sletten
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