NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/apps/8546

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From: [e-mail] (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: Service Pak, which one is latest?
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (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!
>
>Do you really want this?  With all the custom installations and beta
>patches floating around, the code to identify which diff to use
>followed by all the redundant diffs would probably make the pack
>larger.  Besides, it isn't 18-21 disks, it's 14 or 16, depending on
>size.  And two of them are new video drivers which couldn't be shipped
>as diffs anyway.

I mean a SP of the complete diffs to GA, and of course, the files which were
not in GA (which wouldn't be diffs).

>>When is the *real* version coming out?
>What do you mean?  You mean I'm running a fake?  I'll sue!  :-)

I mean the version that lets you build a new version of GA+SP install disks
without making you install GA and then the SP.  I mean, if you want to install
a new WIN-OS/2 printer, the READ.ME file says you will have to reinstall GA,
install the printer, and then install the SP.  Now in the *real* version, you
should be able to install the printer driver without reinstalling OS/2+SP.
:-(

>>Can I get it on CD-ROM?
>Soon.  Probably after they get the bugs worked out.

Remember that IBM claimed in ads that the code is "golden" and amazingly bug-
free (I don't remember the exact language).

Anyway, I hope that the "real" version comes out soon, and for free.  In this
real version, which I thought the SP would be, I will be able to reinstall
OS/2 *once* and have it work relatively trouble-free without having to
reinstall until the next version.  I should be able to install printers,
uninstall printers, etc...and if I have to reinstall again, I shouldn't have
to reinstall much more than the SP disks (install twice!).

Sorry to sound like I'm complaining.  I am expressing my disappointment in that
I was led to believe that the SP was the final fix to OS/2 2.0, but to me it
looks like another kludge, albeit a needed one.  What I would like to know is
when OS/2 2.0 in its final version will come out, completely fixed, on 1 set of
disks.  I am not concerned here wi *new* device drivers, only with *golden*
code.

I just wonder if this will ever happen.  I hope that 2.1 comes out soon, and
that beta drivers are distributed separately, so that 2.1 is as robust as OS/2
should be!

Sorry for the sermon; enjoy OS/2, the real thing!
Meir

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