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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.l-vmctr
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:41:14 CST
- Sender: VMCENTER Components Discussion List <L-VMCTR@AKRONVM.BITNET>
- From: Jim Colten <IJIM@UMINN1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: quality ???
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:45:07 EDT from <SYSMRR@ALBNYVM1>
- Lines: 35
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- On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:45:07 EDT Mike Ramundo said:
- >I am attempting to upgrade to vmsecure 4.4B
-
- Nice of you to precede me on this, just now starting that project myself!
-
-
- >
- >The tape I am using was cut 7/9/92
- >
- >I have loaded the new code to alternate minidisks and am attempting
- >to apply 48 of the 52 corrections
- >
- >zap 500 attempts to mod same bytes as 480
- >
- >fixe 371, 455a, 455b, 492, 501a, 501b, 504, 530
- >all generate error messages during macup
-
- UGH! Thanks for the warning. You are going to call SCI and complain bitterly,
- right?
-
- >
- >running under vmrmaint, with vmsecure mdisks pointing to alternate
- >mdisks, and alternate mdisks ( only ! ) accessed, vmxmacup updates the
- >PRODUCTION vmsecure 191 with error macros and trashes system !!!!!!!
-
- That is working as documented. For that reason, and because there really
- is no such thing as safe testing of a directory maintanence product on a
- production system, we *ALWAYS* apply fixes and mods to new VMSECURE shipments
- on a second level system.
-
- >
- >"how u like dem apples ??!? "
- >
-
- Jim Colten
-