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From: jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu (John Vincent Goodman)
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Subject: Re: Desktop Manager--what it is
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Date: 5 Nov 90 00:34:47 GMT
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In article <2137.272f25f5@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
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>Also, I gather that there are some programs around which
>have managed to be incompatible with the Desktop Manager.
>I have seen mentions on the net that TOPS is a particular
>troublemaker. Would anybody care to comment on this?

The manual for TOPS 3.0 specifically mentions that TOPS will not load when
using Desktop Manager and advises you to remove DM.  (Not a feasible solution
if your disk has 2900 files...)  I called Sun Microsystems and was told that
people were renaming DM to load after TOPS and using both successfully.

However it was made clear that this is not officially supported by Sun Micro-
systems.

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