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GENDIRT                                                   CMS Transient command

Use the GENDIRT command to fill in a CMS auxiliary directory.  The auxiliary
directory contains the name and location of modules that would otherwise
significantly increase the size of the resident directory, thus increasing
search time and storage requirements.  By using GENDIRT to fill in an auxiliary
directory, the file entries for the given command are loaded only when the
command is invoked.  The format of the GENDIRT command is:
+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GENDIRT  | directoryname [targetmode]                                       |
+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
where:

directoryname
         is the entry point of the auxiliary directory.

targetmode
         is the filemode letter of the disk containing the modules referred to
         in the directory.  The letter is the filemode of the disk containing
         the modules at execution time, not the filemode of the disk at
         creation of the directory.  At directory creation time, all modules
         named in the directory being created must be on either the A-disk or
         a read-only extension; that is, not all disks are searched.  The
         default value for targetmode is S (system disk).  It is your
         responsibility to determine the usefulness of this operand at your
         installation, and to inform all users whose programs are in auxiliary
         directories exactly what filemode to specify on the ACCESS command.