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- From: robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: RE: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.143915.255@winkle.bhpese.oz.au>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 14:39:15 +1000
- References: <9209021225.AA14429@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com> <1992Sep4.135207.15155@infocomm.com>
- Organization: BHP Information Technology, Newcastle
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- In article <1992Sep4.135207.15155@infocomm.com>, mark@infocomm.com writes:
- > These are NOT arguments against the usefulness of PATCH. I agree with Bruce
- > and Hunter that it certainly has an important role as a tool. I do see
- > that given the priorities of the Alpha VMS migration, PATCH was not a
- > development tool and hence not on the critical path for deployment.
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- This was my point as well. I think that while there is a way around the
- lack of a PATCH utility, there is an obvious argument for DEC to
- concentrate on porting of other facilities that can't be done without.
- This doesn't excuse them from porting it at all.
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