Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> >How many others have shipped dumps, online, back before high speed >Internet connections?
This is the inverse, or maybe the perverse: In 1990 or so, we had a distributor in Europe. A customer took a database ABEND and was very unhappy. I was in Manhattan that day speaking 4x at MVMUA, and over lunch called the office (pre-cellphone!) and heard about the crisis. "We might need you to come back immediately", I was told. "Um...that makes no sense: I need the dump. Get them to overnight it and I'll be back tonight, will look at it tomorrow." So the next day, FredEks (or more likely DHL) delivers a too-large, too-heavy box. I open it...and find a paper dump! The lucky part was, I was able to find an overlay in page 0, so I was able to diagnose it impressively quickly... ...phsiii
