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.