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

[Ian Miller]

On Monday, August 20, 2012 1:35:36 AM UTC+1, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> On Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:47:24 AM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote: > On Itanium: : > $ MACRO/OBJECT=X.OBJ SYS$INPUT > .ENTRY GO,0 > .END : > %PATCH-I-WRTFIL, updating image file DISK:[DIRECTORY]X.OBJ;2 : > $ DIFF X.OBJ > Fails miserably. : > PATCH does not maintain this file's undefined format. It does stay undefined. It fails to maintain the EOF information properly 
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I wonder if this was deliberate due the Undefined Format.