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THANK YOU!
after my summary of no responses, i received some help from

Andrew Macneil  [
Olle Eriksson   |  extra thanks to andrew, dick and olle
Dick Seymour    [  you patiently gave me the explanations i needed
Emanuel Stiebler
Kjell Andresen

and subsequently realized that i was not clear enough in my first posting.
(this is my virginal attempt at patching anything but britches.. |^D )
here are the apparent answers to the questions i thought i was asking:

- there are TWO patches here, both are appropriate for ultrix versions 4.3-4.5
  ***[this was at the root of my confusion]***

- each .cvrlet_txt file gives a text-only description of each patch and some     
  installation instruction

- each .readme file is the .cvrlet_txt in (garbled) html (could be my browser    
  but i doubt it)
  ***[i intuitively looked at these first, and this helped spur my confusion]***

- the .tar and .tar_z are each a separate patch, one compressed, one not

- the .chksum files are needed to verify the patches after installation


so the files to get:
all .tar and .tar_z              (2)
all .chksum                      (2)
both .cvrlet_txt OR both .readme (2)
                                + ___
                                  6 total

thank you again
original post follows with individual responses appended:

> i am running ultrix 4.4 and have been to
> ftp://ftp.service.digital.com/public/ultrix/mips/v4.4/
>  for the patches and i see these files:
> 
>   polycenter_console_manager/                         
>   ssrt035902_ult45.CHKSUM                             
>   ssrt035902_ult45.CVRLET_TXT                         
>   ssrt035902_ult45.README                             
>   ssrt035902_ult45.tar                                
>   ssrt038301_ult045.CHKSUM                            
>   ssrt038301_ult045.CVRLET_TXT                        
>   ssrt038301_ult045.README                            
>   ssrt038301_ult045.tar_z                             
> 
> Q: do i get all of them? some? it is not obvious (not to me!)
>    and after searching, have found no informative archive.


responses:
*******************************#1***********************************
Hello Josie,
I trust you've already received some replies to your summary from closer to
home, but if not:
I'm not an expert in this; I don't use Polycenter Console Manager, and I
haven't made much use of Ultrix patches, so I can't talk about the specific
patches involved. 
But the general idea of the files is that the ssrtnnnnnn_ultxxx names 
distinguish the product, patch number and Ultrix version involved - so it seems
there are two patches in the contents you listed. The .CVRLET_TXT file is a
"cover letter" - a text-format description of what the patch is for and what it
contains; the .README is an HTML version of the same information. The .CHKSUM
file is a checksum that you can use to verify the patch file (no, I don't know
exactly how) and the .tar and .tar_z files are the patches themselves - .tar
means a tar archive, .tar_z means a tar archive that has been compressed. 
So you would first download the .CVRLET_TXT files to see if the patches are
appropriate, and then get the .tar or .tar_z files (binary transfer),
uncompress if required, and follow the instructions provided either in the
cover letter or in one of the files within the patch archive.
Regards,
Andrew Macneil.

*******************************#2********************************************
without visiting the site and reading the README files,
 i'd hazard the guess that the  ult45   group are with 
 a non-compressed TAR file, and the  ult045  group is
 *with* a compressed tar file... and the checksums will
 therefore be different, and one of the READMEs will
 talk about decompressing the tar file.
So: (as a pure guess) grab -either- of the 4-file groups,
 and have at it.
Better: grab *both* cover letters and READMEs, and read them.
With any luck at all the README will itemize the patches.
 a quick DIFF to the two readmes may then answer all questions.
good luck
--dick

****************************#3*******************************************

Your question is a bit unclear but if I interpret it as "Do I fetch all
these files or just some of them" the answer is:
The tar files are the patches, the README and CVRLET_TXT are patch
descriptions, the CHKSUM file is used to validate the patches. 
Olle Eriksson

*****************************#4******************************************

Hi Josie,
Sorry, if understand you wrong, but what is the problem ? In both of this
README files is the explanation, what the other files are. These are only
fixes for security holes.
cheers,
emanuel

*********************************#5*************************************

Read the ssrt038301_ult045.README! It should be more information there.
Kjell