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Started by dsroberts
Wed, 07 Oct 1992 20:01
Bug in AUTOGEN?
Author: dsroberts
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 20:01
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 20:01
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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. Would y'all call this a bug? Or does it indicate I did something wrong? -- Don Roberts Internet: don@beckman.com Beckman Instruments, Inc. Phone: 714/961-3029 2500 Harbor Bl. Mailstop X-12 FAX: 714/961-3351 Fullerton, CA 92634 Disclaimer: Blame me, not Beckman. So, how many hospitals HAVE been built by organizations of secular humanists and atheists, anyway?
Re: Bug in AUTOGEN? - Documented behaviour
Author: brodie
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:44
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:44
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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......"
--
Kent C. Brodie - Sr. Systems & Network Manager InterNet: brodie@fps.mcw.edu
Faculty Physicians & Surgeons uucpNet: fps.mcw.edu!brodie
Medical College of Wisconsin MaBellNet: +1 414 266 5080
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