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