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From: rlb@bsts00.uucp (Ronald (Ron) L. Bolin 3945 snk=)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: WARNING : Deinstall in SCO UNIX DANGEROUS!
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Date: 8 Mar 91 20:43:09 GMT
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In article <9113@lkbreth.foretune.co.jp> you write:
>I recently ran into the following nasty in SCO UNIX.  Having just installed
>SCO TCP/IP I wanted to install SCO NFS.  Unfortunately, my machine didn't
>have enough disk space.  Going into CUSTOM, I noticed that there were
>several packages in the development system that I didn't need, like DOSDEV
>and OS2DEV, so I decided to deinstall them.
>
>This was, as they say, "A BAD IDEA!"
>
>Upon trying to deinstall OS2DEV, CUSTOM reported an error.  I exited from
>the program back into the SYSADMSH, and attempted to run CUSTOM again.
>CUSTOM would not run.  I exited SYSADMSH and tried to run it again.  It
>would not run.
>
>The deinstallation had totally erased the entire of /usr (!!!!!!!)

Say, I tried SCO ODT last year (Aug) with the same kind of results.  
I wrote a complaint letter to their their VP about this an other user support
things; sent back ODT and bought another vendors product.  SCO should 
be more responsive to users needs. 


Ron

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