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From: izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Re: Upgrade problem
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Date: 22 Dec 90 06:43:11 GMT
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In article <4927@idunno.Princeton.EDU> paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) writes:
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>I am trying to upgrade from 2.0fuchsia release to the full 2.0
>release.  the 2.0 upgrade application seems to stop at the point
>at which it says that it doesn't support the fuchsia release.
>How do I do this upgrade?  thanks

Oh, no!  I was afraid of this, since I am in the same boat.
You mean, they wrote this nice Upgrade2.0.app and it allows
you to upgrade only from release 1.0 or 1.0a, but not from
beta versions of 2.0?

Have you looked at Upgrade2.0.app/startup.tcl, and a couple of
other *.tcl files in that directory?
In startup.tcl, I can identify the place where this script
determines the version of the software currently installed
on HD.  I wonder if you can hack these scripts, and make 
the Upgrade app accept 2.0 beta versions.  Please post the
diffs if you do this and succeed.

I haven't got my real 2.0 yet, but if this story is really true,
I will try to mess with *.tcl files.  The way I figure, it wouldn't
hurt to try, because the only other way to upgrade is to
back up /Users, /usr/local, /etc/netinfo, ... etc, and
do a rebuild from scratch.

What a pain (sigh).

By the way, what is this "TCL script", it seems neat.
Is this scripting language documented somewhere?

Izumi Ohzawa