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- From: brodie@fps.mcw.edu
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- Subject: Re: Bug in AUTOGEN? - Documented behaviour
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.124431.697@fps.mcw.edu>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 12:44:30 CST
- References: <1992Oct7.130134.1005@beckman.com> <1992Oct7.142934.1006@beckman.com>
- Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- In article <1992Oct7.142934.1006@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:
- > In article <1992Oct7.130134.1005@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:
- >> I've run across an anomoly in autogen. Don't know if I'd call it a bug or a
- >> feature :-). I was making some changes to modparams.dat to install a new
- >> product, and ran autogen.com. It would error in the SETPARAMS phase with
- >> "parameter out of range". It turned out that LRPCOUNTV was getting set
- >> to 4800 even though the sysgen max is 4096. My modparams.dat file had a
- >> "MIN_LRPCOUNTV=957" in it. I added a MAX_LRPCOUNTV=4096 to resolve it.
- >>
- > It has been pointed out to me that this behaviour is documented in either the
- > 5.5-1 or 5.5-2 release notes (I'm at 5.5, so haven't taken the time to look
- > them up on the CD). I think I'll call it a bug :-) The workaround given is
- > precisely what I did (add a MAX_ value in the case above).
- >
- > Anyway, this happened to SRPCOUNTV (too high) and PAGFILCNT (too low!) for me.
-
- A note on AUTOGEN.
-
- First, AUTOGEN Calculates the value (from the VMS side of things), then
- after that, ADD_, MIN_, and MAX_ limits are applied. Although it would
- be NICE that autogen should compare the range of values, it simply
- doesn't. (keep remembering-- it's just a stupid DCL procedure...)
-
- I suspect that if/when dec ever re-does autogen to be an IMAGE instead
- of a PROCEDURE, more "Smarts" will be built in. Until such time, we
- (as system managers) simply have to keep adding lines to MODPARAMS.DAT
- that tell autogen "don't DO that......"
- --
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