Greetings, Murray...

 Murray Lesser hastily said to Bob Wright:


 ML>     According to Object Toolkit/2,

                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  3rd-party utility???  If so, where can 
one find it?


 ML> the User ID object is in
 ML> tcpip\dll\adv.dll.  According to a "dir g:\tcpip\dll\adv.dll" this file
 ML> has not been updated since 3/17/97!

Mine's even weirder... I did a search, then looked at the settings for the one 
it located... also tcpip\dll\adv.dll.  This shows it as being created 12-31-97 
(when I installed on this box), last changed 10-26-1995 (!) (I think this is
the date on which I finally decided to quit fiddling with the two-bit locals)
and last accessed 10-7-1999.

I'm going to have to have a look at the setup on the 486 and see what IT
says..

 ML>  However, the User ID object was
 ML> updated to the new addresses the first time I signed on to AT&T Business
 ML> Net.

Same here... Oct 3, IIRC..

 BW>> I guess newer isn't necessarily always better..

 ML>     That "guess" has long been known in professional computing circles.

Given that that's where I work, as well... In fact, I've gotten in a few
discussions at work about why we don't want to be on the "bleeding edge"..

 ML> The standard adage is "Don't be the first kid on the block with a new
 ML> system (or application program)."  I am running Warp 4, FP 5.

cf Warp Connect, FP 40... I wound up there because of Y2K, plus I messed
something up that the fixpak seemed to resolve...

 ML>     The original Warp 4 bugs I noticed seem to have been taken care of
 ML> by FP 5.  (After Warp 3, FP 5, IBM issued a "manufacturing refresh" of
 ML> Warp 3 that included FP 5; many Warp 3 users have never applied a FixPak
 ML> to it!)

I quite happily ran the original release with no fixpaks of any kind... by the 
time I found out what they were, FP 5 was nowhere to be seen... I did mess
around with FP 9 and one or two others, but I always wound up either
re-installing or backing out...

 ML>  Later FixPaks are mostly to accommodate new hardware (which I
 ML> don't have), to correct bugs introduced in previous FixPaks, and to make
 ML> new bugs.  One has to evaluate carefully whether one wishes to be cursed
 ML> with the side effects of the few "new function" additions in FixPaks.

After my first one, I did learn to wait  until there seemed to be a reason to
put one on... I seem to recall something about FP26 being required for one of
the versions of Star Office...so it was the first one that stayed.  40 will
also stay..

        -- Bob

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