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? ======================================================================= Leonard S. Berkowitz voice: (617) 423-2020 Warren, Gorham & Lamont fax: (617) 423-9057 31 St. James Avenue e-mail: [log in to unmask] Boston, Massachusetts 02116 ---------- >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 > >---------------------- Information from the mail header >----------------------- >Sender: HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> >Poster: Ken Sletten b894 c331 x2525 <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: QUERY still CM on C.50.03 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >- > >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 >