Some of this vast proliferation of servers was indeed (in the case of
the vaguely cluey users) about separation of control as Dave notes
below. In my experience, though, far more often it was because the
administration of the company finances found it so much easier to do a
case by case
HI Ian,
Before SFS came along ( which we promptly switched to),
we achieved what you appear to want by ( somewhat clumisily) linking
MR ( not MW)to the common disk ( and then accessing it, of course) just
before writing our cms file to it. I we failed to get Write access we
had to sleep for
MY 4.3 VM (64 bit) behaves as reported if I 'define stor 16E' ( says
your machine does not support that much storage etc etc)
... My 4.3 VM (32 bit) does not recognise the E suffix. ( I guess PETA
or EXA makes no sense in a 32 bit world!)
I think that's were the difference is, not whethere it
