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Search drive mappings let you execute a program even if it is not located in
the directory you are working in by enabling the system to search for the
program.
Search drive mappings are numbered, although they also have drive letters.
For example, search drive 1 (or S1) may also be known as network drive Z:.
You can map up to 16 network search drives (letters K: through Z:, starting
with Z:). You can’t map a search drive and a regular network drive to the
same letter.
When you request a file and the system cannot find it in your current
directory, the system looks in every directory a search drive is mapped to.
The system searches, following the numerical order of the search drives,
until either the program file is found or cannot be located.
NOTE: Search drive mappings aren’t supported workstations. The search functionality is
provided with the OS/2 PATH, LIBPATH, and DPATH commands.
Directory Map objects
Directory Map objects can point to directories that contain frequently-used
files such as applications.
If you create a Directory Map object to point to an application, users can
access the application by clicking on the Directory Map icon from the
Browser.
If the application’s location in the directory structure changes, you can
update the object instead of having to change all users’ drive mappings.
Related utilities: “MAP”; “NETUSER” (Utilities Reference).
Dynamic memory
The most common form of memory, used for RAM. Dynamic memory
requires a continual rewriting of all stored information to preserve data.
If dynamic memory is too slow for a computer’s microprocessor, overall
performance will suffer while the CPU waits for requested information to
arrive from memory.