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From: miw@uqcspe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Gotcha in VMS 4.6 upgrade
Message-ID: <1673@uqcspe.OZ>
Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 21:12:29 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 29 21:12:29 1987
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References: <871124024639.016@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: miw@uqcspe.oz (Mark Williams)
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, University of Queensland
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In article <871124024639.016@CitHex.Caltech.Edu> carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>The VMS 4.6  upgrade  doesn't  handle  VMSMAIL.DAT  properly.   It  apparently
>constructs  a  new VMSMAIL.DAT from SYSUAF.DAT, and therefore doesn't preserve
>mail directories or forwarding.

I don't know exactly what happened in Carl's case, but we certainly had no such
problems here when we upgraded from VMS 4.5 to 4.6. Our mail directories and
forwarding was left intact. Perhaps the upgrade was from an earlier version
than 4.5?

Mark Williams
ccwilliams%wombat.decnet.uq.oz@uunet.uu.net (ARPA)

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