[Info-vax] Expected votes Was: troubles with quorum disk

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-10 03:53:14 +0000, Tom Linden said:

> It has been a number of years since I last did this, but IIRC, MODPARAMS.DAT
> is hand edited and the system parameters are set through SYSGEN, n'est-ce pas?

Yes.

Details on the file and on AUTOGEN: 
<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6017/6017pro_067.html>

Oddly, the main introduction to MODPARAMS.DAT doesn't tell you it's a 
standard sequential file and intended to be edited; that's assumed.  
(Editing the file is mentioned later, but that's fairly well buried.)

{Insert standard grumble about the primitive state of the VMS 
management interface}


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