RE: Network File recovery

Andy,

Is there anyway at all to look at a netfile?  I have often been frustrated
while working on a SNADS file that is hung up but not really knowing what it
is I am working so hard send.  Did you suggest that these old files just be
deleted?  How would you know that you are not deleting something that would
be difficult to resend?

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Nolen-Parkhouse [mailto:aparkhouse@attbi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:39 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Network File recovery



Some of the drawbacks of SNADS that I have seen are:

- It tends to be somewhat 'invisible'.  It is easy to forget that stuff
is going on.  I never really developed the discipline to monitor the
process.  I know that I have frequently audited other peoples systems
and found numerous (and sometimes very large) netfiles which had never
been received into physical files, some of them very old.  This can be
overcome by good operations procedures.