Remote Minidisks
Remote minidisks are used in command resolution the same
way that local mini disks are. The performance of command
resolution may be improved if you access remote minidisks
lower in your search order
than
the S-disk. This
is
of course
dependent
on
the actual commands you are using, and where
VM/PC
must look to resolve the commands.
For
example, if something
on
your S disk (which is local)
is
also
on
a remote disk accessed earlier than
S,
the system will
use the remote disk's copy, thereby degrading performance.
Spool Files
Whenever
VM/PC
is
asked to print a file
on
the local
printer, a spool file
is
created
on
disk and given the DOS
filespec of SPOOL.nnn, where nnn
is
a number in the range
from 1 to 999. Also, in order
to
manage the spool files,
VM/PC
creates two control files, SPOOLIN
.DEX
and
SPOOLSF.BLK.
If
you were
to
erase either of the control files before
VM/PC
has completed all printing activity, any unprinted
spool files would be lost. New control files will, however, be
-created
by
VM/PC
if local printing
is
requested and existing
control files cannot be found.
Should you ever wish to move spool files from one
VM/PC
system to another
VM/PC
system, you will need to move
the two control files also, as
VM/PC
cannot process the
spool files without the control files.
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