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From: ZSYJKAA@WYOCDC1.BITNET (Jim Kirkpatrick 307 766-5303)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Wollongong INSTALL requirements
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Date: 10 Jun 88 17:06:35 GMT
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I was just told by our network person to beware INSTALLing anything on
our cluster or modifying SYSTARTUP.COM because Wollongong claims their
software must be INSTALLed last!  HUH?  I.E. they say if you INSTALL
anything after their stuff, the Wollongong software may break.  What the
blankety-blank are they doing?  This really puts a crimp in any work the
rest of us have to do as we either must not do any INSTALLs, or we must
modify SYSTARTUP.COM and reboot! (I'd guess there are other solutions
that some of you can think of)

We are still trying to squeeze out of them a good explanation of why this
is so;  they seem to think it's just a simple product requirement, and
not a problem.  What if we end up with TWO such products that must be
installed last?  Do they think they're unique in the universe??  Grr.

I'd like to hear from anybody who has any information on this, such as
speculation of why their product has this requirement, what they should
have done to get around it, what I can do to get around it, and so on.