KVC@ENGVAX.UUCP.UUCP (12/04/86)
Try SET FILE/NODIRECTORY to remove the directory attribute on the
..DIR file. You can then delete it. HELP SET FILE/NODIR I believe
has a procedure for doing exactly what you need to do.
Good luck!
/Kevin Carosso kvc%engvax.UUCP@usc-oberon.usc.edu
ps. Since the pagefile was "opened" before the XQP really existed at
boot time, the filesystem doesn't really know about the pagefile
as well as it should. You can delete an active pagefile, which
will release the blocks and the XQP will allocate those blocks to
newloy extended/created files. Unfortunately, VMS is still paging
to those files. Ooops. One thing you can do to minimize this is
to boot off a very small pagefile and then use a secondary pagefile
for real paging. When SYSGEN activates a secondary pagefile, it uses
the filesystem to do so and the file is then "known" to the XQP as
any other file would be.