[Info-vax] Problem with VMS732_DEBUG-v2 patch

[norm.raphael at metso.com]

info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com wrote on 10/06/2009 04:03:32 PM:

> 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 succesfully because it would not try to delete a non
> existant file.

But it's actually (for example)

$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]TRACE.EXE

instead of 

$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]TRACE.EXE_OLD;

[ Oh, and whats up with the lower case and abbreviated "/NOCONFIRM"? ]