Rational Product Updater Problems - Solution

Thought I'd pass this on as it may also explain some of the failures others
have reported when installing updates.

Claus Weiss remembered that at one time he'd had an apparent problem with
updates when the policy file was "buried" several levels down in directory
structure.  Decided to investigate this as when I copied the files to disk I
had organized them in "fix folders" consequently the path name of the policy
file was quite long.

I moved all the files so that the path to the policy file was very short
(about 8 characters) and tried again.  The darn thing worked!!

It appears that there is a bug in RPU where the path length can exceed some
internal maximum and this can cause errors in the update that are not
correctly diagnosed.  So - if you are placing the updates on a network drive
- don't bury them too deeply!

Still don't know how RPU managed to completely hose my install but reinstall
fixed that.  Sadly I still haven't got WDSC 6.0.1 running as it appears that
the WDSC updates I have require RAD 6.0.1.1 and that is 1.4G which is not a
practical option for me to download on the home DSL.   

Jon Paris
Partner400

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