Hello all!

Well, since Wirt's calm, reasoned replies about tiered pricing make
it hard for me to continue to rant and rave about that, I found
something else to rant and rave about:  MPE/iX 5.5!

We upgraded our machine yesterday (1/26/97) from 4.0 to 5.5.  We
had nothing but trouble.  Files failed to restore from the FOS and
SUBSYS tapes with FSERR 105 (Bad Variable Block Structure).  I had
to shuck and jive the system into coming up by skipping one file on
the FOS restore (STCODEDB.PUB.HPNCS) and restoring what I could off
of the SUBSYS tape and then, when restarting AUTOINST the second time
(or was it the third time - I've lost track!), telling it there was
no SUBSYS tape.  Not to mention the errors in the HP3000 MPE/iX
System Software Maintenance Manual Release 5.5 (like telling you to
enter :PURGEGROUP [log in to unmask], which does *not* work).

Anyway, the system is up now and the Response Center is checking out
the restore problems I had (they say it is file corruption, we need
to run FSCHECK and purge the offending files), but I have one nagging
problem:  We keep getting console messages after every spool file
prints "The last name component of the pathname does not exist in the
directory / HP Directory message 1".  Is this a known problem?  Is
there a patch to fix it?  It's not critical, just annoying.

Thanks for letting me vent, again!

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]      Therm-O-Link, Inc.
Phone: (330) 527-2124                   P. O. Box 285
  Fax: (330) 527-2123                   Garrettsville, Ohio  44231