On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 9:23am, Brian Cuttler wrote

> I know this is a loaded question... but why do I have it in my
> head that if there is no spool area dumps will run anyway (although
> rather slowly) dumping directly to tape.
>
> Did I just make that up or is/was there some truth to it ?

You didn't make it up -- that's correct.

> If that is a process, what is the proper term for it ?

I don't know that there's an official term for it, other than 'running 
with no holding disk'.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University