[Info-vax] Problem with VMS732_DEBUG-v2 patch

[R.A.Omond]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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!

Yep, I checked the PCSI kit - it wasn't tested at all.

See if you can spot the error in the PCSI_POSTINSTALL.COM file:

$ if file_rename .eqs. "NO"
$   then
$ define sys$output nl:
$ define sys$error nl:
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DBG$HA_KERNEL.EXE_OLD;
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DBG$HA_MAIN.EXE_OLD;
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DEBUG.EXE_OLD;
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DEBUGSHR.EXE_OLD;
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DEBUGSHR.EXE_OLD;
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DEBUGSRVSHR.EXE_OLD;
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DEBUGUISHR.EXE_OLD;
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]DBGHK$HOST_KERNEL.EXE
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]DBGHK$PRCDUMP_KERNEL.EXE
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]DBGHK$SYSDUMP_KERNEL.EXE
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSMSG]DBGTBKMSG.EXE
$ delete/nolog/nocon SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]TRACE.EXE
$ deassign sys$error
$ endif