Don't rely on this to be true all of the time.  I had a vendor on the phone once
and we were talking about different versions of OS and he asked me to check my
banner line.  He kept trying to tell me that I was on 5.5 pp3 and I had just
gone to pp7 not more than two weeks prior to that.  He was going off of the
results from the banner and I was going off of a lost weekend and the HPSWINFO
file. (not that the HPSWINFO file is any more reliable, but it is another
'almost indicator', but that is another story!)

The more I mess with power patching and reactive patching, the more I am relying
on paper logs as to what is on the system.

Kevin "been there, been burned" Newman

John Burke wrote:

> Or maybe not. Apparently under some circumstances the user version is
> changed. For example, all three of my systems on 5.5 pp7 show something like
> this:
>
> showme
> USER: #S5044,MGR.SYSMGR,PUB      (NOT IN BREAK)
> RELEASE: C.55.00   MPE/iX HP31900 C.05.08   USER VERSION: C.55.07
> CURRENT: FRI, MAY 12, 2000,  1:35 PM
> LOGON:   FRI, MAY 12, 2000,  5:59 AM
>
> And my system on 6.0 pp1 shows:
>
> [9]:showme
> USER: #S187,MGR.SYSMGR,PUB      (NOT IN BREAK)
> RELEASE: C.60.00   MPE/iX HP31900 C.16.01   USER VERSION: C.60.01
> CURRENT: FRI, MAY 12, 2000,  1:37 PM
> LOGON:   FRI, MAY 12, 2000,  5:58 AM
>
> So, the "user version" seems to show the PowerPatch level in all cases.
> Note: I used PATCH/iX exclusively to update these systems.
>
> John Burke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Fred Metcalf
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 11:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Banner Version on MPE 5.5 pp7
>
> Kevin,
>
> Exactly the same! Look at this:
>
> PUB.SYS:showme
> USER: #S606,MANAGER.SYS,PUB      (NOT IN BREAK)
> RELEASE: C.55.03   MPE/iX HP31900 C.05.08   USER VERSION: C.55.03
> CURRENT: THU, MAY 11, 2000,  8:48 AM
> ..
> PUB.SYS:print hpswinfo
> *******************************************************************
> **                                                               **
> **              *** MPE/iX Mit 5.5 C.55.03  ***                  **
> **                                      POWERPATCH C5507 P5      **
> ...
>
> Regards
> Fred Metcalf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I don't have an MPE 5.5 pp7 OS at the moment, what is the version number
> as seen in show me for this OS?
>
> :SHOWME
> RELEASE: C.55.03   MPE/iX HP31900 C.05.08   USER VERSION: C.55.03
> (from my MPE 5.5 pp4)