Submissions by: William L. Baker Dollar General Corp. 427 Beech St. Scottsville, Ky. 42164 (502) 237-5444 x 214 Directory [*.DOLGEN.DECALC] contains a few command procedures to make the conversion to DECALC version 3 a little easier: CLEANUP.COM This procedure generates delete commands for all decalc version 2 related files. CONVERTER.COM Convert all the users on a given pack and continues when severe errors are detected. Allows you to determine which grids will not convert and send a pre-conversion action listing to each user. DECAL2.COM This is our command file for starting a user DECALC session. It is set up to run: Version 2 and version 3 in parallel. Accept passwords for the conversion. Allow the user to convert one grid at a time for testing. CALC$CONVERT_GRIDS.COM is a hog! NULL_KILLER.COM This command will find any users with version 2 private directories without a grid or name file. SHOW_V2_NAME.COM This procedure will display grid names from a version 2 name file. Directory [*.DOLGEN.DISKREO] contains a command procedure to reorganize a disk: DISK_REO.COM This procedure will create a copy of the input disk. The copy will be divided into three zones to minimize head contention: Zone 1: Places INDEXF.SYS, all directories, [SYSTEM], and user files in the middle logical blocks. The user files are selected and ordered according to a parameter file. Places one half of the free space on each side of zone 1. Zone 2: Places short life files around the zone 1. Program ZONE.BAS determines which files are included in zone 2 and zone 3. Zone 2 will have .LIS files for example. The files are copied in sorted order by file extension and size. Zone 3: Places long life, low access files around the zone 2. DISK_REO_DATA_CHECK.COM A procedure to assist with the maintenance of the zone 1 user file placement parameter files. HEAD_ANAL2.COM A procedure to list a file(s) retrieval pointer logical block numbers and allocated size. LOGIN.COM A captive command file to run the disk reorganization.