Good work mark,

I had to make a small number of changes since we are behind a firewall and need
to exit through an ftp proxy.  The only problem that I got myself into, a hung
session, seems to be a result of keeping the file in fixed format (converting it
to bytestream and executing it again did not hang).

The changes that I had to make for the ftp proxy were to 'load' up some
additional variables and change the ftp commands as follows:

# Generate the FTP commands needed to download the obsolete patch list and
# the current patch catalog.

cat >$TEMP.cmd <<EOF
open $FTPPROXY
user $PROXYUSER
$PROXYPASS
user anonymous@$FTPHOST [log in to unmask]
byte
hash
get /export/patches/mpe-ix_obs_patch_list $TEMP.sup.raw
get /mpe-ix_patches/$VUF/catalog $TEMP.cat.raw
exit
EOF

Regards
Paul H. Christidis

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Subject:    Re: HP ESC patch weirdness?
Author: [log in to unmask]
Date:       5/6/99 1:04 PM

Richard Gambrell writes:
>
> CSY: Please take this scrpt and make an MPE version of the Custom Patch
> Manager for MPE  and make it available to all customers with ESC access!

One of the reasons I wrote patchman was that I got tired of spending years
waiting in vain for Custom Patch Manager/iX.

Mark "I love Custom Patch Manager/UX" Bixby
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