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- From: MILLER@TGV.COM
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: re: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <715417768.652976.MILLER@TGV.COM>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 07:09:28 GMT
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- >And he's modest too.
-
- Yes, I am.
-
- >I don't think I'd want to subject my customers to the headache of trying
- >to manage patched images. DEC has been moving away from this as fast as
- >they can, and for good reason. It's much too easy for a customer to mis-
- >type a patch and really screw things up, and if you provide them with a
- >file to do it for them, why not provide them with an updated image?
-
- We generally distribute patches as DCL files to avoid problems like that.
- On those occations when I need to read someone a patch over the phone
- I have them read it back to me before they perform an update. Then I ask
- them to rerun patch and examine the new binary values before they run the
- new image. With Patch we can have a fix out to the customer within an hour
- instead of the day or two it takes to ship a new tape.
-
- Has any one else here had any problems using Patch?
-
- -bruce
-