[Info-vax] VMS83A_UPDATE V11

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-12-15, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Sam Hoblit wrote:
>
>> I hope this not where we are headed with all this, but having a major
>> update
>> patch late and now withdrawn twice does not build my confidence.
>
> Is this the first patch issued since the demise of VMS engineering ? If
> other patches were issued and worked well, then this may be more of a
> glitch than the shape of things to come.
>

No. There have been multiple patches issued and multiple problems have
been found, including some really basic ones like the delete command
which was missing a version specification (and hence the command
procedure had clearly never been properly tested).

This is clearly the start of a trend.

> At least they withdrew the patch when they realised there was a problem.
>

Yes, but they have now had multiple goes at fixing it and still cannot get
it right.

Simon.

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