JOHNSON@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu ("I am only an egg.") (01/12/87)
>From: NET%"zar@XHMEIA.CALTECH.EDU" 11-JAN-1987 09:49 >To: johnson%nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu@csnet-relay.csnet >Subj: RE: INFO_VAX Letter > >I feel your letter wrongfully blasts DEC for >improperly helping cure your system's DCLTABLES >problem. That fact is that DEC correctly found the >bug and gave a sollution. I fell your letter only >blasted your staf for not being bright enough to >replace an installed image properly. > >D. Zirin DEC indeed found the problem. You are correct. But, they didn't know how it happened in the first place. No one here messes with DCLTABLES.EXE. They did say however that it does happen now and then. I shall henceforth be watching all DEC supplied installation procedures to see which if any move things to where they shouldn't be. I had never before deleted an in-use global section. Maybe there is something in a manual somewhere about this but with all the manuals DEC sells one, I don't recall having seen it. In any case, DEC should have known that this wasn't the thing to do on a live system. Chris Johnson Northeastern University