There's probably an easier way, but the hacker in me used to do this on TOPS-10 6.0 and up, because of subdirectory support (IIRC). Earlier than 6, it was just *,*

dir <structure>:[*,*,*,*,*,*,*]filename.ext

First two *'s are P,Pn, the next 5 are up to 5 nested subdirectories. Of course, wildcards can be used on the filename.ext, but not leading *'s.

SYSSTAT will list "System File Structures". Use those as the <structure> above for an exhaustive search. I'm not sure DIRECT can search multiple structures, I think if you did DSKB:,DSKC:[*,*] it would only search DSKC: for [*,*]. For DSKB, it would only show your current P,Pn on that structure. (Unless you used SETSRC to change the search path... I think).

As for why it's trying to continually back up AVAIL.SYS, nothing comes to mind.

ak

On 10/5/2021 5:14 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:

So I have a very vanilla TOPS-10 system running.

The console is being spammed with:

[DAEMON: %AVAIL.A77 already used, can't rename AVAIL.SYS]

Somewhere, evidently, there's a directory of files that are backups of AVAIL.SYS, and it needs cleaning out. How do I find that directory?

Adam
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