[Info-vax] Unexpected error using ZIP for OpenVMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:

(snip)
>>    I wouldn't call a disk-full condition an unexpected error.

> Yes, I should have qualified that with something like "in an order entry 
> application", for that is what I was thinking of when I wrote the above.

It is if someone else fills it up while you are using it.

Also, the system I post this from mounts user directories such that
they time out after some number of hours.  If a program is writing
to a file at the time, it seems to get the same error as a disk full.
(That is, the write fails.)

-- glen