hill@petsd.UUCP (John S. Hill) (02/18/89)
Hi. I've been a satisfied user of LSC for something like two years now. I originally bought version 2.01 (and sent in my registration form), upgraded to 2.11 and later 2.13 (a.k.a. 2.15) via patches I got off the net. I paid the upgrade fee for 3.0, then upgraded to 3.0p2 and just recently 3.01p4 (by the way, what does the 'p' stand for?). I really like being able to get these patches off the net, and knowing that I always have the most recent version of the compiler. My question is, if I didn't have net access, how would I know that I had the latest (or even somewhat close to the latest) version? Other than for version 3.0, I never got any notices from Think/Symantec. If I hadn't been aware of any interim releases, I would have gone from 2.01 directly to 3.0, which was a hell of a jump. Am I missing something, or are there a lot of people out there w/ 3.0 who don't know about 3.0p2 or 3.01p4? Just casually wondering. -- John. -- -- -- | | --- ----- --- |\ | ---- ---- ----- | | | | | |___ | |___| | \ | | __ | __ | | | | |___| ____| | | | | \| |____| |____| | ...there is no substitute (except a ZR1 'vette!) John S. Hill -- UUCP: {princeton,att,decvax}!petsd!hill
siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) (02/19/89)
In article <1468@petsd.UUCP> hill@petsd.UUCP (John S. Hill) writes: > [Questions about patch distribution] As new patches are created, they are made publicly available for anyone who can get to the information services to download. Also, the patches are available on an "as-needed" basis; if someone calls in with a problem that a patch can solve, they're referred to the info services, or else they can send in $10 and get a disk with the patch on it. It is too expensive to prepare and send out a mailing for every patch that comes along, even more so since patches are not planned upgrades. --Rich Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp. Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel Phone: (617) 275-4800 x305