/TIMEOUT=OpenVMS_delta_time Optional. Default: ::01 (1 second). Minimum timeout period for initial remote procedure call (RPC) request retransmissions. Specify the timeout period as your estimate of the typical round- trip time for RPC requests. For slower-speed links - for example, NFS traffic over SLIP - specify a value that is larger than the default. Example: For a maximum read/write size of 8192 (see the /DATA qualifier) over a 19,200-baud SLIP line, set the absolute minimum timeout value as follows: 10240 bytes*8 bits per byte --------------------------- = 4.27 seconds 19,200 bits per second Here, the 10240 bytes is 8192 data bytes plus the worst-case RPC overhead. Because 4.27 seconds is the absolute minimum, a more realistic value for this link is 15 to 30 seconds to allow for other traffic.