home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16 / NN_1992_16.iso / spool / vmsnet / mail / pmdf / 1972 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-07-26  |  1.7 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!infopiz!mccall!ipmdf-newsgate!list
  2. From: jeremy@vsm.com.au (Jeremy Begg)
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
  4. Subject: RE: Request for minor changes to installation procedure
  5. Message-ID: <01GMUD7Q6HDE0000N2@vsm.com.au>
  6. Date: 26 Jul 92 23:54:38 GMT
  7. Organization: The Internet
  8. Lines: 20
  9. Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
  10. Resent-Date: 26 Jul 1992 17:54:38 -0600 (CST)
  11. Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
  12. Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
  13. Resent-Message-ID: <01GMTEPHTHS29GVO26@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
  14. X-Vms-To: in%"info-pmdf@ymir.claremont.edu"
  15. Mime-Version: 1.0
  16. Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
  17. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
  18.  
  19. >Again, this assumes knowledge of local environments that we simply do
  20. >not have. How do we know that such a local procedure should always be
  21. >run? How do we know that it should be run at a particular point?
  22. > ...
  23. >In other words, your proposal is considerably less flexible than providing
  24. >no hook at all. Why should we provide a mechanism with narrow flexibility
  25. >when no mechanism at all is considerably better?
  26.  
  27. I do not gree with this.  Plenty of DEC products support a SYSTARTUP.COM as part
  28. of the regular startup procedure.  Sure, it can't cater for all sites, but I'll
  29. bet that if you say "PMDF_SYSTARTUP.COM is run at such-and-such a point in the
  30. startup process" people will set up their systems appropriately.
  31.  
  32.         Jeremy Begg
  33.  
  34.   +----------------------------------------------------------+
  35.   | VSM Software Services,  |  E-Mail:  jeremy@vsm.com.au    |
  36.   | P.O.Box 801, Unley,     |   Phone:  +61 8 4145074 (pager)|
  37.   | South Australia 5061    |     FAX:  +61 8 3734911        |
  38.   +----------------------------------------------------------+
  39.