[Info-vax] Problem with VMS732_DEBUG-v2 patch

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> someone wrote:
> 
>>>> -DELETE-E-DELVER, explicit version number or wild card required
>>> You have got to be joking. :-(
>>>
>>> I can have _some_ understanding for logic type errors in the kits, at
>>> least while the new team get up to speed, but that kind of syntax error
>>> should have been caught during the first round of testing.
>>>
>> Why do you assume that anyone tested anything?
> 
> if the logic is something like
> 
> $IF F$SEARCH(filename) .nes. "" then DELETE 'filename
> 
> AND if during testing, there was no pre-existing "filename" then the
> procedure would run successfully because it would not try to delete a non
> existent file.

Then the procedure was not completely tested!

If software were completely tested it would be a lot more reliable and a 
lot more expensive!