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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Service Pak, which one is latest?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.054527.17667@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov19.202333.23129@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Nov20.043103.18364@news.columbia.edu> <1992Nov21.034018.25109@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:45:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.034018.25109@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >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.
-
- Agreed; I am thinking more along the lines of diffs to the GA disks themselves!
-
- >>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."
-
- Ah! That's what I thought the SP would be! I can't wait :-)
- I hope it is that soon...and available on the net!
-
- > 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.
-
- No doubt a wise way to distribute since all the trade rags and people who
- have installed it have discovered what a pain it is to install it...and
- reinstall it....
-
- It's worth it.
- :-)
-
- But CD-ROM for general distribution would also be worth it!
- They might even find CD-ROM drive sales to triple afterwords!
-
- :-)
- Meir
-
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