[Info-vax] PATCH/ABSOLUTE does not PATCH/ABSOLUTE

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In article <Su-dnWtI4tIAoKzNnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
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>"Arne Vajhøj"  wrote in message 
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>> PS: And now when I have started exposing my ignorance - when did
>> .OBJ switch from VAR to UDF?
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>VAR on VAX and Alpha; UDF on Itanium.  We needed to be able to continue 
>support .OBS files with the ELF object format and FIX512 wouldn't even do 
>that so we went to UDF (which then lead to some additional work to continue 
>to support copying .OBJ files to/from magtapes)

I think PATCH needs some additional work then!

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