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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
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Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

978.0. "Missing dictionary info" by QUIVER::PARK () Wed May 01 1991 19:09

    I need a help to build our DECmcc Extended LAN Manager Kit.  We
    developped a bridge am for the multiport bridge from the current
    bridge am which can manage LAN bridge 100, 150, 200.  I am using
    UPDATE command (DAP) in order to update bridge in the dictionary:
    
    DAP>  update class bridge_am from mcc_bridge_am_svc_if.com
     
    Here is the catch; I dumpped a subclass bridge line in the dictionary
    before and after the update.  
    
    before   861 blocks
    after    551 blocks
    
    As you see it, it shrunk.  Apparently UPDATE command purges existing
    information in the bridge line (I believe PA, Exporter, and Historian
    FM stuff is gone).   After I augmented PA, Exporter, and Historian FM
    to the bridge line the size of the dictionary dump file is 611 blocks.
    It is still smaller than what it was.  Is there anybody who knows what
    is missing in 250 blocks ?   Whatelse component other than PA,
    Historian, and Exporter FM should be augmented to the bridge am?
    
    Jae 
    
    
    
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978.1DFLAT::PLOUFFEJerryTue May 07 1991 19:0620
RE: .-1

  Jae:

>     DAP>  update class bridge_am from mcc_bridge_am_svc_if.com

  Did you mean to update the class bridge?  I don't believe that there is a
  class bridge_am.  There is a class mcc subclass bridge_am.

  I'm curious as to the status of this problem.  Can you provide an update?

  The only thing that I can think of this that there may be other DAP .com
  files that add to the class bridge definition.  How may DAP .com files are
  there for bridge?  

  Other than the three you mentioned (PA, Export and Historian) there aren't
  any other modules to my knowledge that augment the bridge class.  Did the 
  augment commands produce any errors?  

                                                                    - Jerry
978.2what are you trying to do?TOOK::CALLANDERMon May 13 1991 19:4819
Jae:

Update may not be what you want to be doing, by your questions I am wondering
about the following:

-- are you simply trying to extend the current definition of the bridge
   class information? (add in new attributes/directives and such)

-- If you want to modify the class is it to add an entire new child?
-- or, are you looking to modify only a child?

There are other commands, undocumented, that DAP supports for more specific
manipulations of the dictionary information. Update as you guessed deletes
the old class definition (and all children beneath it), then adds in your
new definition. You may actually be looking for a load, or augment capability.
If you can answer the above questions  on what you are trying to do I believe
we can help you.

jill