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- From: brydon@dsny25.sinet.slb.com
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: RE: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <9209021225.AA14429@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 12:25:04 GMT
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- In article <1992Sep1.214402.16889@eco.twg.com>, reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R.
- Pollack) writes:
- > |>Besides, a lot of patches are trivial, like constant changes. And
- > |>what if I want to patch some native M64 code?
- >
- > 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.
-
- You gotta be kidding!! All of the CSCPAT_nnnn kits (all of them!) are
- VMSINSTAL savesets that Patch an image. Almost everything that is done in a
- VMS0nn, VMSMUPnnn and VMSUxnnn kit consists of patches. If DEC is getting
- away from the use of the PATCH utility, then every single itty bitty VMS
- release and subrelease will become huge. Can this be real?
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