A plea for version numbers

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Hallo World,

It should be quite obvious that this newsgroup is read by a large number of Oracle's own staff, who, I think for the most part are quite willing to make helpful suggestions to some of the questions asked.

However, I often see questions of the form "I'm running such-and-such a package and this happens". Can I make a plea to all such question-askers:

               Please include the version numbers of your software!

This is essential because the question may refer to a misfeature which has been corrected in a later release. Also knowing the hardware and operating system would be helpful, as some questions may only have relevance to a particular hardware/operating system configuration.

Have fun, etc,
Andy Symes.

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             views or position of my employer. Received on Fri Jul 03 1992 - 17:56:34 CEST