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Re: 4.2 Upgrade procedure

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From: N.R.HASLOCK
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1985 13:48
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In article <5870002@acf4.UUCP>, tihor@acf4.UUCP (Stephen Tihor) writes:
> You can override how large (or if) AUTOGEN wants to make page, swap and dump 
> files by using the parameters PAGEFILE, SWAPFILE, and DUMPFILE (blocks).
> Setting a parameter to zero tells autogen to not make or modify the file if 
> missing.  (We have been running with DUMPFILE=0 and SAVEDUMP=1 for a while).

That is wonderful, but how do you persuade the upgrade procedure to
define those parameters that way?
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From: nrh@lzwi.UUCP (N.R.HASLOCK)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Re: 4.2 Upgrade procedure
Message-ID: <351@lzwi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 09:48:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 09:48:47 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 16:39:27 EDT
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