Getting stuck

From: Keith A. Lewis (lewis_at_PROBE.mitre.org)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:11:46 +0000 (UTC)

koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes in article <BkiYvG9R0K9B@eisner.encompasserve.org> dated 13 Jul 2004 12:16:13 -0500:
>In article <cc5619f2.0407130733.70356edd@posting.google.com>, jordan@ccs4vms.com (Rich Jordan) writes:
>> I'm hoping someone out there has had to do this recently and has some
>> insight. I'm thinking of converting the data disk to ODS-5 and adding
>> a command to the user and maintenance logins to set parsing to
>> traditional style. That should minimize impact to existing apps, I
>> think.

Conversion is easy. The only gotchas come if you have a program comparing
filenames or pieces of filenames in case-sensitive ways. As others have
said, keep a backup just in case.

> I've had no problems since switching all my user data disks to ODS-5
> and updating my VAXen to 7.3. Prior to 7.3 VAXen couldn't deal with
> ODS-5 disks at all, since then they can mount the disk and see the
> files in some fashion. I'm stuck on 7.2-1 so I can't do the system
> disk yet.

I've been reading the getting stuck stories here on comp.os.vms for years,
but I never thought it would happen to me. I just got stuck (probably
forever) at 7.3-1. 7.3-2 requires DECwindows 1.3, and my app requires
DECwindows 1.2-5 or earlier.

For one reason or other, almost all of the products we've been upgrading
have been shut down. This year the only ones still on "the list" are TCPIP,
Java, and Mozilla (not actually used with the app).

--Keith Lewis klewis {at} mitre.org
The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.

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