FR> Guess I really don't understand the problem now.  It appears you have lo 
FR> of free disk space.  So you should never have to purge volumes to recove 
FR> space.  Seems you are purging ot recover memory, which I'm not sure I FR> 
understand, at least from the descriptions.
Yeah, we kind of got sidetracked.  Let me start over.
Case 1:  Never manually run PURGE.  After about 2 weeks, MACOLA, a DOS 
btrieve app, begins to "lose transactions."  I can't describe the exact 
symptom, but it is a big problem for the customer...they have to go back and 
find what entries "took" and which didn't, and correct it all...a really big 
mess occurs.
Case 2:  Run PURGE /ALL every few days.  The above symptom never
happens.
LOTS of free disk space on the MACOLA volume (in fact, on all
volumes).
A CNE  advised either a. add server memory, or b. continue the PURGE process, 
because the deleted files list was in memory, and as the list grew, some 
other process was running short of memory.
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