CHANGE-BACKGROUND-SEGMENT-SIZE

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@CHANGE-BACKGROUND-SEGMENT-SIZE <logical device no.>, <no. of pages>

Change segment size for a particular background program.

<logical device no.>
(decimal) must be a terminal or batch processor.
<no. of pages>
(decimal) must be 128 or 64.

Rules:

  1. Permitted only for user SYSTEM.
  2. This command must be executed after @INITIALIZE-BACKGROUND-PROGRAMS is issued.
  3. A 64K segment is automatically reallaocted if there is not enough space on the segment file for a 128K file.

Example:

@CHANGE-BACKGROUND-SEGMENT-SIZE 9, 128

The background segment for terminal 9 is set to 128 pages.

Related commands

ALTON (monitor call)

ALTOF (monitor call)

References

Norsk Data Document ND–60.128.03 SINTRAN III REFERENCE MANUAL (printed February 1983), page 1-29

Norsk Data Document ND–60.174.Q01 SINTRAN III QUICK REFERENCE CARD