> Yep, I expect you're right. I don't know much about producing CDs so
> I thought that the gold ones would have been produced in a little
> batch or summat (and therefore all contain the same faults), but I can
> see your point.
Normally, you produce a master (in this case a gold disk) which is
given to the duplicators to make an impression to press the production
run. The contents of this gold disk should really be kept on the hard
disk, or a second gold disk made as a backup. However, if the
duplicators refuse to release the gold disk they burned the copies
from, there is no way that you can prove the dodgy CD's are due
to an error their end.
> And it still doesn't change
> the fact that the users are entitled to a CD which works fully without
> needing these downloads at all
True, but as Chris said, the versions are out of date anyway, and
either an older version of V (if you still had one), or the NC3 mftp
works to allow you to get the updates.
<Cheeky Grin>
Besides, aren't we all good boys and girls, ensuring we have complete
system backups? Nope, neither am I!
</Cheeky Grin>
Jimbo
P.S. My hertfelt thanks to Chris Wiles - the most genuinely helpful
and knowledgable salesperson I ever had the good fortune to do
business with.
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A1200, 420Mb IDE HD, Blizzard '030/50 w/SCSI i/face, 18Mb, 12x SCSI
CD-ROM, Pace 56k ext modem, ProMIDI i/face.
