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Patch VMS732_ACRTL-V0200 Question/Problem

Roger_Fraser — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:09:08 GMT

Has anyone else had the problem that, after applying this patch, the images SYS$COMMON:[SYSUPD]COMPARE_TIMES.EXE and SYS$COMMON:[SYSUPD]LIBEXT.EXE are missing?

Interestingly only the LIBEXT.EXE image was saved in the [PCSI$UNDO_*....] tree.

Re: Patch VMS732_ACRTL-V0200 Question/Problem

Duncan Morris — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:37:28 GMT

Hi Roger,

from what I can see, LIBEXT.EXE is used by the patch UNDO operation to extract headers from the restored DECC$RTLDEF.TLB when undoing the patch. I was unable to locate any copy of COMPARE_TIMES.EXE

I doubt that these images existed in SYSUPD before the patch install. They would likely be placed there during the installation, for use during an UNDO operation.

Re: Patch VMS732_ACRTL-V0200 Question/Problem

Roger_Fraser — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:25:06 GMT

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for the reply - very useful.

All I can say is that the previous version of this patch left both images behind in [SYSUPD]. However, as it doesn't seem to be causing a problem (so far anyway), I am not going to worry further about it!

Cheers

Re: Patch VMS732_ACRTL-V0200 Question/Problem

Roger_Fraser — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:02:45 GMT

The reply gave me the info I needed.