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- From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: Re: RE:Will lmf kill alpha???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.163023.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- References: <1992Aug29.210056.1@amc.uva.nl> <30AUG199212494644@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu> <1992Sep1.000203.24063@dscomsf.desy.de>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:30:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.000203.24063@dscomsf.desy.de>, hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writes:
- > [quotes deleted]
- >
- > Let me guess Helling uses CONDIST. For some reason DEC do not put the licence
- > requirements on CONDIST, or rather they do but they are in the release notes
- > which you have to install the damn thing to read. The installation notes are
- > there of course but not the info on PAKs.
- >
- > What is worse is that after buggering up the system with a new version one can't
- > always move back, by the time the full import of the release notes becomes
- > apparent something else has been done to the system. Thus the unwary discover
- > that after three days of installing everything under the sun that their original
- > idea of getting phigs and GKS-3D working at the same time is a non starter and
- > have to scrub everything out and start again to go back to the versions that
- > would talk to each other :-(
- >
- Sorry Phil, you are talking (writing?) s**t this time. You don't need to
- install the product to get the release notes - you can pull them out of
- the distribution (VMSINSTAL option N does it if I'm not mistaken). And
- reasonable people do it before going on with installation.
- For not being able to go back - well, only a fool installs anything
- on a system without a fresh backup...
- Michal
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