From: danco@pebble.org
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 10:04 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Where has PATCH gone?

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:31:13 GMT, Alan Greig <agreig@my-deja.com> wrote:

>> I wonder if VEST (or is it DECmigrate) would work on the PATCH.EXE ?
>
>$ VEST PATCH
>%VEST-F-LNKSYS, Image is linked against OpenVMS VAX and references
>symbols in it -- not translatable
>%VEST-F-TRANSFATAL, Translation was impossible
>
>So unfortunately not.

Yes, it is.  You must first use PATCH/ABSOLUTE to patch itself.  Patch the
header to remove the "linked against the system" part.  Like so:

$PATCH/ABSOLUTE SYS$SYSTEM:PATCH
DEPOSIT/WORD 0A=0
DEPOSIT/LONG 28=0
UPDATE
EXIT

$VEST PATCH

You'll get some UNSUPABSREF warnings.  Ignore them.

- Dan

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