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From: 3003jalp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Applied Magnetics)
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Subject: Re: Got Update.  But what is it?
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Date: 3 Oct 90 22:10:36 GMT
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In article <10316.2709d542@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> lusgr@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu (Steve Roseman) writes:

>...
>By 'stacked', I assume that is bootable, with a table-of-contents as
>the third file.  Well it is, sort of.  The first 2 files are short
>dummy files, the third is the TOC, and the rest are product updates.  I
>have installed it on 3 systems, and things seem stable, so far.
>AIXwindows hasn't hung up on me since I did it.

`Stacked' has something to do with multiple files on a tape.  I don't
really know what it is, don't want to know and don't care.  We bought
our machine early with pre-release software.  Little did we know that
some hardware would also be pre-release, i.e. the QIC tape drive.  It
doesn't know what a stacked tape is either.  IBM promised us a
replacement RSN, but we're still waiting.

Until someone gives me the straight dope, the updates have to stay in
the cooler.

  --PA