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!

Richard G.

Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> I've spent the afternoon writing a shell script to compare my HPSWINFO.PUB.SYS
> with the patch catalogs at ftp://us-ffs.external.hp.com.
>
> This script can tell me which of my installed patches have been superseded,
> what the new superseding patches are, and which installed patches aren't found
> at us-ffs (i.e. alpha patches or previous VUF patches).
>
> Here's the list of the unknown patches that are on my machine but are missing
> from us-ffs (and haven't been superseded):
>
> MPEKX58A  AIFSPFPUT Problem With Dates After 12/31/99
> MPEKX73C  SYSGEN not always adding modifications to LOG4ONLN.PUB.SYS file
> PTDEDE7A  General fixes for TELNET ARPA Services on 5.5 ("B" Patch)
> PTDEDF6A  General fixes for TELNET ARPA Services on 5.5 ("C" Patch)
> PTDEDL9A  General fixes for TELNET ARPA Services on 5.5 ("E" Patch)
> PTDEDL9A  General fixes for TELNET ARPA Services on 5.5 ("E" Patch)
> PTDEDP1A  General fixes for TELNET ARPA Services on 5.5 ("F" Patch)
> PTDFD37A  General fixes for TELNET ARPA Services on 5.5 ("L" Patch)
> VPLJXG3A  Year 2000 enhancement and other enhancements for VPLUS
>
> I know that VPLJXG3A is the infamous Y2K breaker and has been withdrawn.
>
> But I find it most interesting that the PTD telnet patches are completely
> missing from the ftp site, and are also missing from the us-support web
> interface.  What happened to them?
>
> I plan to do a beta release of my patchman script once I've added functionality
> to detect new non-superseding FOS patches that you might want to download and
> install.
> --
> Mark Bixby                      E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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