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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2782.0. "A1$ prefix" by VNOAPP::TIMA_204410 (Plus en plus seule...) Tue Jun 01 1993 14:57

Hello !

My customer uses for his ALL-IN-1 disk a logical called 
A1$DISK. He runs at the moment ALL-IN-1 2.4 and
wants to upgrade soon. He had a look in the Installation 
Guide 6-2 (Preparing your system )where is recommended, 
not to use disklogicals with A1$ or OA$ to avoid conflicts
with the ALL-IN-1 System. 

Can anyone of you confirm or strengthen this recommendation, 
because the customer would have to change all his hundreds 
of procedures he wrote until now...

Thanxx a lot
Marianne Schnabel 
CS Vienna
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2782.1It's up to you...IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeTue Jun 01 1993 16:4014
    This isn't going to sound very helpful....
    
    Things with "$" in them are always reserved to Digital. Things that
    start A1$ are reserved for ALL-IN-1. The ALL-IN-1 installation
    procedure uses a large number of global symbols and process logicals
    that start A1$, and gets very confused. the reason for the warning in
    the documentation and the checks in the installation are that we have
    had a number of bugs reported against us that were caused by using disc
    names, logicals and symbols that start with "A1$".
    
    It doesn't appear that the installation procedure uses A1$DISK, but if
    it fails, don't call me!!!
    
    Graham
2782.2It will be in the customer's best interestsAIMTEC::WICKS_AAlphatraz - Coming Summer 93Tue Jun 01 1993 17:4517
    Marianne,
    
    this question was also answered by GAP in note 2063 of the _V24
    version of this conference since the recommendation was also in the
    v2.4 Install Guide it's just a little stronger this time round.
    
    STARS shows that A1$DEVICE has been the most popular cause of installs
    failing due to misuse of logical names and you really should encourage
    your customer to move off using such names as there's no guarantee
    that a future patch or release of ALL-IN-1 might not start using
    A1$DISK as it uses hundreds of other similar names already. 
    
    It's better for the customer to learn now than later...
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks