KVC@engvax.UUCP (09/25/85)
> I am currently running VMS 4.1 on 11/780 and 11/785 with following > non-DEC software. > 5. Gosling EMACS > 11. Eagle Disk drives from System Industries with patched DRDRIVER. > > Kiran Shah Although 4.2 did change a few things, I don't think you need to worry about most of your applications not working. I haven't seen any problems except for the few that have been discussed on the net, that have simple fixes (such as reprotecting certain files). Gosling's EMACS (at least what UNIPRESS sells) works fine, even a very old version that some people still like to use. DEC did replace DRDRIVER in 4.2, so the SI stuff will not work right off. I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS, but SI told me to save the 4.1 DRDRIVER with the SI patches that has been running all along, do the 4.2 upgrade, then copy the saved DRDRIVER back to SYS$SYSTEM and use the 4.1 driver until SI comes up with patches for 4.2. I will repeat that I personally do not know if this works, but that's what they told me to do. I will try it soon. Of course if you have an Eagle as your system disk, you have a problem... Previous minor releases of VMS have changed DRDRIVER too, and the difficulty with SI's stuff is a reflection not of DEC making things difficult, but of SI not writing their own driver and saving us all the same hassle everytime VMS upgrades arrive. /Kevin Carosso engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA Hughes Aircraft Co.