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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Service Pak, which one is latest?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.034018.25109@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Nov19.054441.27447@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <1992Nov19.202333.23129@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Nov20.043103.18364@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:40:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.043103.18364@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >Does anyone know why IBM doesn't do "diff"s instead of another 18/21 disks?
- >I just read in the readme file that if you want to do something such as add
- >a new printer under WIN-OS/2 you must reinstall GA, make the changes, and
- >reapply the SP!
-
- Why no diffs? Well, because many systems have ad hoc patches
- (remember all those, "Oh, you want the COM.SYS patch, available via
- anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com..."?) Doing byte diffs on
- such permutations would be a nightmare.
-
- >When is the *real* version coming out?
- >Can I get it on CD-ROM?
- >:-(
-
- They'll probably do a production code update sometime in December (I
- expect; nothing official). They'll probably call that "Refresh Level
- 2.00.1." As for CD-ROM, you can already get OS/2 2.0 there (via the
- PDK CD-ROM or the Ultimedia CD-ROM -- I list the part number for the
- latter in the FAQ List). You'll hear more about CD-ROM distribution
- in the future, no doubt.
-
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