🚀 go-pugleaf

>And he's modest too.

Yes, I am.

>I don't think I'd want to subject my customers to the headache of trying
>to manage patched images. DEC has been moving away from this as fast as
>they can, and for good reason. It's much too easy for a customer to mis-
>type a patch and really screw things up, and if you provide them with a
>file to do it for them, why not provide them with an updated image?

We generally distribute patches as DCL files to avoid problems like that.
On those occations when I need to read someone a patch over the phone
I have them read it back to me before they perform an update.  Then I ask
them to rerun patch and examine the new binary values before they run the
new image.  With Patch we can have a fix out to the customer within an hour
instead of the day or two it takes to ship a new tape.

Has any one else here had any problems using Patch?

-bruce