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From: jwp@chem.ucsd.edu (John Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: OS upgrades
Message-ID: <137@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 88 09:59:33 GMT
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Reply-To: jwp@chem.ucsd.edu (John Pierce)
Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
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Yeah, this is an annoying subject....  But I have some sympathy for vendors,
too.  Mostly they've got to design this sort of thing for people who have no
idea whatever about what they're doing.  We finally decided to put in the
effort to write scripts that save everything we really care about someplace
where it's easy for us to get it back.  Life's been a lot simpler since then.
Sure, the vendor's going to change it on you.  Just put back the old binaries
(it's very unlikely they won't run) and recompile as you get the chance.

It only requires a little thought, and the occassional screw up, to make this
relatively less painful than griping about what the vendor did to you.  They
don't have a chance in hell of figuring out everything you may have changed.

-- 
	John Pierce			Chemistry Dept, B-032, UC San Diego
	Internet:  jwp@chem.ucsd.edu	UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA  92093
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