Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: VMS upgrades Message-ID: <2394@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 13:21:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2394 Posted: Sat Oct 6 13:21:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 02:42:44 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 19 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 uucp: {sun!texsun, ucbvax!mtxinu, dual!ptsfa} !politik!paul