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- From: steve@archone.tamu.edu (Steve Rikli)
- Subject: Re: Please put s/w title on CDROM spine (and more topics)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.040924.9902@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: College of Architecture, Texas A&M University
- References: <1992Sep8.134113.9347@turing.abbott.com> <BuA555.8vL@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:09:24 GMT
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- In article <BuA555.8vL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman) writes:
- >larry@turing.abbott.com (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
- >> ...
- >> Put the title of the enclosed s/w on the spine of the jewel case. If
- >> that isn't possible how about at least making the spine white so a marker
- >> can be used to identify the s/w. This was on the very first CD's from SGI
- >> I saw at least had the white background!
- >
- >Here Here!!
- >
- >I've actually thought about posting this very senitment for months. When
- >we first started receiving CD-ROMs from SGI, I had to take apart the cases
- >and write the software name on the spines - a pain, but at least they were
- >identified. I couldn't believe it when SGI went to dark blue at the color
- >of the jackets, now I can't even add write the name on each CD case.
-
- "Me too"!! ;-)
-
- Sorry, but I can't help but feel the same way. The dark blue spines are
- an inconvenient pain and I find it irresponsible for SGI not to pre-label
- stuff in the first place. SGI does the Right Thing [tm] in so many other
- areas, that it's frustrating when they lapse in something so simple.
-
- In addition, I have another more pertinent question. I just received
- 4.0.5a w/o requesting it, but the media was 1/4" tape. How do I go about
- notifying SGI that I would like my software updates on CD from now on?
-
- And while I'm thinking about it, should I go to the trouble to install
- 4.0.5a on PI machines (i.e. non-Crimson and non-Indigo) if they're all
- ready running 4.0.1? Do I gain any functionality or fix any bugs by
- doing so? I'm still really confused by the whole 4.0.5a|b|c|d thing,
- as I suspect many of us are.
-
- I think a FAQ for this group is long overdue. I'm almost to the point
- that I'd volunteer to keep track of such a thing if the acknowledged
- gurus (Vernon, Dave, et al) would siphon information this way.
-
- Tips/hints/pointers gratefully accepted.
-
- cheers,
- sr.
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