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

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <00AC622F.C37A9328 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>In article <08718cad-5d41-4b7f-9fb8-1853ebd0df2d at googlegroups.com>, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> writes:
>>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
>>If so inclined one can fix it with:
>>
>>
>>$ set file tmp.obj;/att=(ffb='f$file("tmp.obj;-1","ffb"),ebk='f$file("tmp.obj;-1","eof"))

Just a quick follow-up WRT to Hein's FFB/EBK fixup.

It works.  The LINKER how happily digests the .OBJ.

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