Excerpted from message dated 04-04-96, Mike Bilow to Doug Swenson:

 DS> I have often wondered if the information on the CD is
 DS> cumulative...

MB>I am not sure if I understand your question.  While it is not the
  >case that everything from any prior issue of DevCon is on every 
  >subsequent issue, most things which are useful will not be removed
  >from one issue to the other.  A lot of the beta tests and so on are
  >only on a single issue, for example, but tools and documentation
  >tend to last forever, and you can even find things such as
  >corrective service for OS/2 1.3 on the current DevCon.
  > 

Hi Mike--

    One thing that is not "cumulative" is back FixPaks for Warp.  Due to
system errors that prevented use of "Customer Assistance" when I
installed the IBM IAK after I had "upgraded" from FixPak 5 to FixPak 17,
I had to go back to my previous configuration to get it to work
correctly.  Since I had installed the IAK after "committing" by deleting
the archive files, I had to reinstall the original GA and then reinstall
FixPak 5 from (as I remember) DevCon 7.  Fortunately, I keep all the
back DevCons even though the licenses for the short-term licensed
material in them expired when the next issue arrived.  But, this is the
only time I found it necessary to go back into my physical archives.

    Regards,

          --Murray

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