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- Subject: Re: VMS shareable images, what's wrong with them?
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- In article <6372@npri6.npri.com>,
- murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy) writes:
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- |>it's not even a religious issue --- there's nothing to discuss.
- |>dec decided to implement shareable images in a certain way, and so they did,
- |>and that's all there is to it. i certainly wish they had done it differently,
- |>but there's no chance of changing it now because it would be incompatible.
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- Not true. The image header record has major and minor version IDs precisely
- so that the image format can be changed in an upward-compatible fashion. As
- long as the Linker and image activator continued to recognize and process
- old-format images correctly, in principle anything goes as far as the changes
- that could be made in the new format.
-
- --PSW
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