GEOFFRIL@UNION.BITNET.UUCP (09/27/86)
I've got a curious documentation problem. We have two VMS 4.0 documentation
sets that were not upgraded from 4.0 to 4.2. Now that DEC has released
VMS 4.4, it has withdrawn the 4.0 to 4.2 documentation upgrade kit and sell
only a 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade kit.
Local DEC sales representatives have been unable to answer the following
questions: Can I apply the 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade to a 4.0 set and obtain
an accurate documentation set, or is the nonexistent 4.0 to 4.2 upgrade
essential for accuracy? If the 4.0 to 4.2 is needed, how can I obtain
it since DEC no longer sells it?
Any clues or suggestions gratefully welcomed. I really hate the idea of
having to trash complete doc sets because of premature obsolesence.
BITNET: GEOFFRIL@UNION
BIX LGEOFFRION
TEL. (518) 584-5000 EXT 2628LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA (09/30/86)
....We have two VMS 4.0 documentation sets that were not upgraded from 4.0
to 4.2. Now that DEC has released VMS 4.4, it has withdrawn the 4.0 to
4.2 documentation upgrade kit and sell only a 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade kit....
Can I apply the 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade to a 4.0 set and obtain an accurate
documentation set...?
No. Both the 4.2 and 4.4 upgrades resulted in major changes to the doc set.
But the 4.4 one doesn't subsume the 4.2 one. For a glaring example, the 4.2
upgrade completely replaced several manuals - I forget which right now, some-
thing like the System Services and RTL manuals - which the 4.4 upgrade them
modified "in place".
If the 4.0 to 4.2 is needed, how can I obtain it since DEC no longer sells
it?
Unless someone has a couple of spare upgrade kits around they'd like to
unload, I'm afraid you're out of luck.
Any clues or suggestions gratefully welcomed. I really hate the idea of
having to trash complete doc sets because of premature obsolesence.
Well, look at it this way: The combined cost of the 4.2 and 4.4 doc set up-
grades - if you could get the 4.2 ones - would not be very far from the cost
of a new 4.4 doc set - and you'll be saving yourself a LOT of time and effort
and many headaches (especially with the 4.4 upgrade, which has many, many tiny
pieces and seems to make you move half the existing documentation to new
binders). And you end up with a spare set of documentation that is still
mostly correct, which you can take home or leave out for public use or
whatever. Or, you can toss the old documentation and use it as a source of
binders (which are not at all cheap).
-- Jerry
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