In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:

> Probably a dumb question, but now that FTP works so well for HP3000-to-HP3000
> file transfers, why not set up the patches on an HP3000 at HP and allow
> people to just FTP the material over, directly into their appropriate
> group(s) on their machines, perhaps not even in compressed form, so that the
> patches are immediately ready to install?

If you pick up mark Bixby's patchman script, it basically does all this for
you. It ftp's (even via proxies) to HP's ftp-patch server, picks up the lists
of patches, lets you pick what you want, then picks up the patches. It even
takes care of getting the proper mover program, decompressing/extracting
everything for you, and will even deposit it in the PATCHXL group ready to be
recognized and qualified by Patch/iX. It works very well; done it several
times now on several different machines -- some that need to proxy ftp via a
firewall and others that don't.

No fuss, no muss.

          -Chris Bartram