Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!LEICHTER-JERRY From: LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: VMS 4.4 documentation upgrade Message-ID: <8609300752.AA07017@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 03:53:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8609300752.AA07017 Posted: Tue Sep 30 03:53:08 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Oct-86 01:51:36 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 31 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa ....We have two VMS 4.0 documentation sets that were not upgraded from 4.0 to 4.2. Now that DEC has released VMS 4.4, it has withdrawn the 4.0 to 4.2 documentation upgrade kit and sell only a 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade kit.... Can I apply the 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade to a 4.0 set and obtain an accurate documentation set...? No. Both the 4.2 and 4.4 upgrades resulted in major changes to the doc set. But the 4.4 one doesn't subsume the 4.2 one. For a glaring example, the 4.2 upgrade completely replaced several manuals - I forget which right now, some- thing like the System Services and RTL manuals - which the 4.4 upgrade them modified "in place". If the 4.0 to 4.2 is needed, how can I obtain it since DEC no longer sells it? Unless someone has a couple of spare upgrade kits around they'd like to unload, I'm afraid you're out of luck. Any clues or suggestions gratefully welcomed. I really hate the idea of having to trash complete doc sets because of premature obsolesence. Well, look at it this way: The combined cost of the 4.2 and 4.4 doc set up- grades - if you could get the 4.2 ones - would not be very far from the cost of a new 4.4 doc set - and you'll be saving yourself a LOT of time and effort and many headaches (especially with the 4.4 upgrade, which has many, many tiny pieces and seems to make you move half the existing documentation to new binders). And you end up with a spare set of documentation that is still mostly correct, which you can take home or leave out for public use or whatever. Or, you can toss the old documentation and use it as a source of binders (which are not at all cheap). -- Jerry -------