From: "Geo" 

How can a fixpack have prerequsites if they are cumulative?

Or maybe you are talking about warp fixpacks, I know they added an
uninstall sometime after I dropped OS/2 but when I was applying fixpacks I
remember the readme said stuff like you had to have fixpack xx before
installing this fixpack, etc. That's not cumulative in my book.

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:42feb7a7{at}w3.nls.net...
> They were cumulative...
>
> IBM did tend to split fixpacks up into subsystem types for some of the
> subsystems, but that's the only difference.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:42feb605{at}w3.nls.net...
> They weren't cumulative, and IBM thought that was the way to go because it
> gave people the option to not install a fixpack if it created an
> incompatibility with some application. MS on the other hand did things
right
> and made service packs cumulative which forced app vendors to fix their
> stupid apps when something broke. Having been thru that before is one of
the
> reasons I keep promoting the idea of current rollups so you have one
service
> pack and one rollup to get current. Simpler is always better and leave the
> problems of broken apps to the app vendors.
>
> Even the OS/2ers said they liked the NT way of doing cumulative service
> packs better.
>
> Geo.
>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:42feaebf{at}w3.nls.net...
>      I didn't realize IBM's fix packs were not cumulative like Windows.
> Maybe my memory is failing but I thought I had applied them that way.
>
>   Rich
>
>

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