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- From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Staying back at work.
- Message-ID: <-RJms*721@prolix.apana.org.au>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:36:31 GMT
- Organization: More like Dis~, really.
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- Peeve: having to stay back at work against one's will.
-
- I'm involved with producing version 2 of our Mickeysoft Lan
- Manager based Lan software. We're migrating from Lan Manager V
- 1.1 to Lan Manager 2.1a. As well as this, we have redesigned our
- server environments, and user environments, upgrading to newer
- versions of boring DOS stuff like Windows 3.1, WFW2, Excel 4 and
- all that sorta shit.
-
- The headache is going from our locally labelled '1.7' release, to
- the new 2.0 platform.
-
- Migration of umpty ump thousand users is a MAJOR PAIN.
-
- I _thought_ I had nothing to do with migration, since I did other
- bits and pieces of the system, and was meant to be going on to do
- the documentation [major spew avoided there!]. However, the guy
- who designed the migration process went on two weeks leave, and
- we had to have it NOW. So yours truly had to sit down and work
- out how to do this magic automatically.
-
- It isn't straightforward at all. :-(
-
- No thanks to Microsoft for changing the way access information is
- kept.
-
- No thanks to Microsoft for having buggy lanmangler code.
-
- No thanks to Microsoft for forcing us to stay with OS/2 1.3 on
- our server platforms, because Lan Manager will NOT run with any
- version of OS/2 higher than this.
-
- No thanks to Microsoft for their spewable applications, which
- insist on hard-coded paths.
-
- No thanks to Microsoft for their lamentable lack of product
- support.
-
- No thanks to the thickhead who designed the OS/2 MOVE command.
-
- No thanks to the guy who 'designed' the Migration process, and
- left it up to someone else to implement. Sheesh.
-
- Tonight we tried the migration. 4 hours of fucking around, and
- 30 minutes of trying my REXX script, and finding that there were
- odd cases that were just horrendous catch-22 situations.
-
- Yes, this has been a compunerdygeekism.
-
- Better than gun lobby taunting. :-)
-
- Dac
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- dac@prolix.apana.org.au David Andrew Clayton. // _| _ _
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