[Info-vax] FAXSR

[abrsvc]

On Jan 25, 12:00 pm, Dave <Baxt... at tessco.com> wrote:
> I appreciate that this is probably a pointless exercise since there
> are few who even remember this archaic product, however...
>
> I am running a very old product called FAXSR, and I have begun to see
> a problem where the COMPOSER process terminates with a
>
> [10:16:00.68] Disk space too low - terminating
>
> message.      I could only find one reference to this issue in a very
> old (2004) thread, which didnt really offer any solution.     I tried
> to contact the author of this old thread (Gerald Marsh, (anyone know
> him)) but of course he is "no longer at that address".
>
> Is there anyone out there who has even a passing familiarity with
> FAXSR, and who may be able to help me out with this issue?
>
> As far as I can tell, none of my disks are having any disk-space
> issues, and all disks are well below the MAXFILES limit.     From the
> old thread, there is reason to suspect the FAXSR_HISTORY file which is
> indexed and has the CBT attribute (contiguous best try).      It is
> possible (some of) the disk(s) is/are quite fragmented.   is it
> possible that this is the cause??     I dont have any defrag software
> to analyse the disks.
>
> Are there native DCL commands which will give me this info??    (maybe
> in the anal/sys or anal/disk)??
>
> Anyway thanks in advance for any suggestions
>
> by the way, the system is Alpha DS10 running OpenVMS 8.3.
>
> Dave
>
> The current owner of the product is OMTOOL, however they stopped
> supporting it way back.
> (their primary response is "send us your autograph on a check-shaped
> piece of paper, and we will come around and attempt to migrate you to
> our new Windowz-based product Genifax."

Our system has not experienced this particular message.  If you
suspect a fragmentation problem, a backup/restore operation of the
entire disk (/image) will resolve the fragmentation issue.  If that
clears up the problem, then yes fragmentation was the problem.  I am
running V7.3-2 on my machine here not 8.3  Given its age (FAXSR), I
would wonder if there are underlying areas that V8.3 supports that
FAXSR doesn't know about.  Can you post some specifics about the disk
and the directory containing the faxes?

Thanks,
Dan