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From: awhitton@bcara132.bnr.ca (Alan Whitton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Patch tapes; security; getpwnam; APRs
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.120235.20750@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Date: 8 Jun 90 12:02:35 GMT
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In article <1990Jun7.170336.19246@terminator.cc.umich.edu>,
rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:
> On the subject of APRs, I don't think your experience in Oz is any worse
> than ours.  I usually get a snail-mail ack in a few weeks.  I have yet to
> get an actual reply to any APR I have filed.  After using Apollos since
> 1983, I filed my first APR on March 3 of this year and am still waiting for
> an answer.  Just to be fair, I should point out that it was a pretty low
> priority (plot(1) command doesn't work).

To be fair to Apollo , their APR system is being phased into the
HP stars (?) system and things are kind of "willy nilly" with the
submissions, e.g. I phoned a call into the Apollo hot line and got back
a normal APR number from them ( APR DDDDD, or the like), but I submitted
a second APR and got back a MUCH LARGER number.

I guess this is another transition problem from Apollo to HP.

Cheers,
Alan

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