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In article <3eCX02wo28gL01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> paf@uts.amdahl.com (Paul A. Fronberg) writes:
>Since sending a mild flame concerning patch levels, I have received two
>mail messages besides seeing one reply on the net.
>
>One person from sun said that they were up to 14. mail.
>One person said they were up to 12. mail.
>One person posted that they were up to 13. posted.
>
>I think the statistics are intersting. By the way, what is the real patch
>level for patch. Please post as I don't want my mail box to explode.

mahendo:2:18 % ftp jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
Connected to jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
220 devvax FTP server (Version 4.162 Tue Nov 22 13:22:36 PST 1988) ready.
Name (jpl-devvax:earle): anonymous
Password (jpl-devvax:anonymous):
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd pub
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -FCt
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
rrn/                    makeindex*              tmp/
patch/                  perl.2.0/               dist.2.0/
perl.3.0-alpha/         index                   patch.2.0/
avl.tar.Z               read.1                  4.3_networking_code/
x11r2_stuff/            bed.tar                 warp.7.0/
x10.4_stuff/            inbox/
cdiff.1.1/              rcs.tar.Z
226 Transfer complete.
215 bytes received in 0.43 seconds (0.48 Kbytes/s)
ftp> ls "-FCt patch"
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls "-FCt patch.2.0"
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
README          kits@12/        patches/
226 Transfer complete.
27 bytes received in 0.20 seconds (0.13 Kbytes/s)
ftp> ls "-FCt patch.2.0/patches"
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
patch12 patch10 patch9  patch6  patch5  patch2
patch11 patch7  patch8  patch4  patch3  patch1
226 Transfer complete.
89 bytes received in 0.52 seconds (0.17 Kbytes/s)
ftp> close
221 Goodbye.
ftp> quit
mahendo:2:19 % mconnect jpl-devvax
connecting to host jpl-devvax (128.149.1.143), port 25
connection open
220 devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Sendmail 5.51/4.7 ready at Tue, 23 May 89 21:24:34 PDT
VRFY lwall
250 Larry Wall <"| /u/sfoc/lwall/bin/mailagent /u/sfoc/lwall lwall Larry >>/u/sf
oc/lwall/.maillog 2>&1">
QUIT
221 devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov closing connection
mahendo:2:20 % patch -v
$Header: patch.c,v 2.0.1.6 88/06/22 20:46:39 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 12
mahendo:2:21 %

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`patch' hasn't had a new patch in almost a year.  I hope that you can see
that it is clearly at patch level 12, since this is Larry's machine.

I hope this ends this discussion once and for all.

	- Greg Earle
	  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	  JPL on-site Software Support
	  earle@Sun.COM
	  earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV	(Guest)