On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Ted Ashton wrote:

> The long- and short-mapped options for opening a file allow one to treat a file
> simply as a large array.  HPFOpen hands back a pointer and you simply use that
> pointer as a pointer to an array of whatever type you wish.  The short-mapped
> option, though, has some pretty strict limits (4M/per file, 6M total in the
> process) which long-mapped access does not have, though, so it would seem an
> inappropriate fix for something like a backup utility.

I'm not sure if that is how Roadrunner was fixed.  What I was told is that
is A fix.  The Tivoli people may have fixed it by other means.

Tracy Johnson
"Trust No One" - Semper Gumby