Lane Rollins wrote: > My memory says that has never been in ldev order.... In the classic days > I thought it just dumped out the JMAT table in what ever order came out, > so I would expect that to be the same with XL/iX. If you are using ns or > telnet it would use the ldev #'s up in order, and when refilling a empty > slot due to a logoff it more then likely be the same number. it's just friggin' bizzare (oh, i guess i shouldn't talk that way around the 'babies') that when i do a showdev [class] it's in no particular order (or at least no discernable order) and yet other 7.0pp1 users are report that it's in order for them. dunno....just dunno.... - d -- Donna Garverick Sr. System Programmer 925-210-6631 [log in to unmask] Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. "Ulysses", A. Tennyson >>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<< * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *