In a message dated 4/5/2006 7:56:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>imagine what will happen when vendor #2 trips its abend routine and decides to back >itself out. The BEST it can manage would be to return the environment to the state it >found it in... which won't do vendor #3 any good at all (actually it will cause vendor #3 >some harm, as well as the customer) and it might even mess up vendor #1 There must be some higher intelligence applied when backing itself out. E.g., before returning the environment to the original state the code must test if it has itself been front-ended after it was installed. If so, then it cannot return the environment to the original state. A little imagination will yield the only viable solution. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
