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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: SCO-ISC Serial Numbers
Message-ID: <1365@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 90 01:11:34 GMT
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In article <8344@scorn.sco.COM> rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) writes:

| When I do mass installs for customers, we copy the unserialized stuff
| and then serialize when in place. Also, we have redone the serialization
| stuff so that (starting with Unix 3.2 v2, I believe) you can reserialize
| an already-branded binary.

  This is what I was suggesting be a standard feature of the system.
Simply by giving a single command you could reserialize all the branded
stuff in the system. It just means keeping a single file with the
filename and a description. Then you could change serial or not,
depending on the installation.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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