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From: bla@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Brad Ahlf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: C++ distribution and update
Message-ID: <-286539924@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 04:27:03 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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An 'update' on the HPC++ and HPC++Developer 'update' tape problem:

The 'update' format for these tapes is not 100% correct.

An 'update' format specification (for architecture type) was omitted.
This leads to an error message from 'update -c'.  Most customers will
never see this problem.  It is also very easily worked around by running
update without the -c option or by specifying the -S option with the -c
option.

These 'update' tapes will still work just fine for updating your HPC++
and HPC++Developer software using the 'update' program in all of the
other normal ways such as using 'update' without -c for interactive use
and also 'update' with -s and -S for command-line use.

Future 'update' tapes will, of course, not have this problem.

Brad Ahlf
bla@hpda.hp.com

This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by,
the Hewlett-Packard Company.  The above data is provided for informational
purposes only.  It is supplied without warranty of any kind.