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Subject: Re: VMS upgrades
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 13:21:36 EDT
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From: politik!paul@BERKELEY (Paul Vixie)


Well, let's see...  VMS 3.5 was useless and completely unnoticable.  In 3.6
they fixed TSDRIVER.EXE to return SS$_ENDOFFILE when reading backward into
the beginning of tape, which in turn broke $BACKUP on new tapes since $BACKUP
writes and verifies the tape label when the tape is empty of save sets.  In
3.7 they fixed this.  Other than the excitement, these releases are useful
only if you have new hardware which needs them (the DMZ32 needs VMS 3.7, for
example).  Also it will be lots of time all at once to get it all done before
you install 4.0, and I'm sure that DEC will make things *nasty* for you if you
are missing file xxx:[sys0.sysexe.foo.bar.retch]trash.exe during the 4.0 update.

Anyway, you've got to love it.  Otherwise suicide is the only answer.

	Paul Vixie

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