Evan wrote:
 
>Steve Dirickson b894 WestWin <[log in to unmask]> wrote after I
>wrote:
 
><<So, how do I get the full Allbase/SQL product "restored" to my system
>short of going to 5.0 -- which I can't do for a while?>>
 
>>Don't you have your 4.0 SUBSYS tape?
 
>Well, no.  I had the *UPDATE FROM HELL* when I went to 4.0 in April of 1993:
 >there were incorrect products on the SUBSYS, products missing from the
>SUBSYS, I got supplemental SUBSYS tapes that had missing products, or
>versions for 4.5 instead of 4.0, and I got bad networking patches that --
>from what I heard -- prompted a worldwide recall of some patches.
 
>Way too much fun!
 
>After all of that, SRDO wanted my 4.0 distribution tapes back so they
>could try to figure out where things went awry (I don't know whether they
>ever did, since they never got back to me with the results of their
>study...)
 
 
 Sounds suspiciously like my experience with the 4.0 update, at which time
 (summer of 93) HP said that the missing software was a "known bug".  This, not
 coincidentally, is why I am reluctant to go to 5.0 (among other reasons).
 
 -Bob
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