Re: C600 434B

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From: Matthias Oertli <oertlim@s054.aone.net.au>
To: midrange-lmidrangecom <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Sunday, February 01, 1998 10:07 AM
Subject: C600 434B


>Hi,
>When installing a CUM tape, the docs mention two IPL's one to the A-side
and
>another to the B-side.
>When I installed the last tape the machine IPL'd from to the A-side up to
>C900 2967 (the ptf install source), then did another IPL to the A-side up
to
>C600 434B where it 'crunched' for a long time, then another, finally to the
>B-side, again with a lengthy stopover at C900 2967 and finally a signon
screen.
>Everything installed ok, so there are no problems (at least I haven't found
them
>yet...).
>
>I am just curious what the second IPL to the A-side did. I checked my
manuals
>for C600 434B but could not find any reference to it.
>Could anyone shed some light on this?


I suspect that that's what it does when the cover letter for an LIC PTF says
that the PTF will be "automatically permanently applied".  I've only caught
my machines doing that a couple of times, and I know that I had at least one
of those PTF's going on each time that I did.

Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...


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