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Subject: Archiving and what DEC said...
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 18:19:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 18:19:06 1986
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> From: BILLW@SRI-KL
>
> the VMS developers dont seem to think this is useful.  It was a very sore
> point at the last decus at one of the 10/20 to VMS "integration" sessions
> that when a user complained that there was no VMS archive facility, the
> responise of the resident VMS wizzard was essentially "Whats archiving?"

Now wait a minute...   I dunno who from the VMS group handles the 10/20
to VMS integration sessions, but sounds like they were confused.  At the
SIR (System Improvement Request) session (where DEC responds to the SIRs
that we as users voted on as the top ten most important) DEC made it quite
clear that some sort of information archiving/retrieval system was something
they were looking at both because of the TOPS integration issue and because
of the importance that commercial shops put on this SIR.

I think that a DEC response to this SIR at a DECUS SIR session is more likely
to contain real information.  Of course, they are in no way committed to
providing such a beast based on that discussion, but the point I'm making
is that someone in the VMS group knows about this and knows that people
want it and is interested in doing something about it.  Maybe if more people
voted on the SIR's and went to the SIR sessions, DEC would have a better
idea of what we want.

	/Kevin Carosso                     engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA
	 Hughes Aircraft Co.