In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes: > More interesting stuff. > > I logged onto Ocean to find more stuff in my mailbox. After 2 crashes > with mail under Ocean, I figured the safe thing was to SET HOST MIAVX1 > and read my mail. Well, I forgot that I did that, and proceeded on > as usual. > > The point is that it took me a while to realize it. MIAVX1 actually > runs faster that way (there are enough people logged on). Is this > an unexpected feature? Hummm....at the risk of causing increased network traffice...this might actually be. When doing a SET HOST, the system uses one of the DECnet protocols. This is slightly more efficient than using TCP/IP. I doubt, though that you will see a significant increase in speed when doing this. > Also, what is SEA? SEA is the name of the workstation in my office. It is replacing the system called MIAVX6. The purpose of this system is to provide a test environment when implementing changes to OpenVMS. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)