Below is a copy of a post from a few weeks ago
Bill Grefe
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Chris Bartram wrote:
> You'll save yourself alot of pain and misery by downloading Mark Bixby's
> 'patchman' script. It's *wonderful*. Downloads a list of patches for you,
lets
> you pick the ones youw want, then can optionally download and get them
ready
> (i.e. unpacked) for patchix all automatically. And it works with ftp
proxies.

The URL is:
http://www.cccd.edu/ftp/pub/mpe/patchman-1.4
or
ftp://ftp.cccd.edu/pub/mpe/patchman-1.4

While I now work for HP, this utility remains unsupported (by HP)
freeware.....
- Mark B.
PS: Thanks to those of you who had kind words to say about patchman at
HPWorld this week.  :-)

-----Original Message-----
From:   HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Melvin R Rees
Sent:   Thursday, September 30, 1999 3:49 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        PATCMAN Command File

I saw references to a command file for simplifying PATCH retreival and
installation.  I can't seem to find any location for it.  If it is
available could someone please post it's URL.

TIA
Mel Rees
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