[Info-vax] Ignorance promenade: On the nature of patching VMS

[Paul Sture]

Marc Van Dyck wrote:

>
> The necessity to use patches to provide system updates was also a
> consequence of the limited size of the media used to distribute those
> updates. With the advent of CDs and DVDs, it made no sense anymore.

Back in VAX days patches for the third party software we were using
came in printed form so yours truly got the job of bashing them in.

Very prone to input error so I *always* put them in as command files
which I could double check and then triple check rather than applying
them directly.  Life would have been easier here if the VMS PATCH
utility had included a checksum capability like the one on RT-11.

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