Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!ames!elroy!mahendo!earle From: earle@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Greg Earle) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: regarding patch level of patch Summary: 12 Keywords: patch Message-ID: <458@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 24 May 89 04:31:37 GMT References: <3eCX02wo28gL01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Reply-To: earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV Organization: Sun Microsystems - JPL on-site Software Support Lines: 78 In article <3eCX02wo28gL01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> paf@uts.amdahl.com (Paul A. Fronberg) writes: >Since sending a mild flame concerning patch levels, I have received two >mail messages besides seeing one reply on the net. > >One person from sun said that they were up to 14. mail. >One person said they were up to 12. mail. >One person posted that they were up to 13. posted. > >I think the statistics are intersting. By the way, what is the real patch >level for patch. Please post as I don't want my mail box to explode. mahendo:2:18 % ftp jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov Connected to jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov 220 devvax FTP server (Version 4.162 Tue Nov 22 13:22:36 PST 1988) ready. Name (jpl-devvax:earle): anonymous Password (jpl-devvax:anonymous): 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd pub 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls -FCt 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes). rrn/ makeindex* tmp/ patch/ perl.2.0/ dist.2.0/ perl.3.0-alpha/ index patch.2.0/ avl.tar.Z read.1 4.3_networking_code/ x11r2_stuff/ bed.tar warp.7.0/ x10.4_stuff/ inbox/ cdiff.1.1/ rcs.tar.Z 226 Transfer complete. 215 bytes received in 0.43 seconds (0.48 Kbytes/s) ftp> ls "-FCt patch" 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. ftp> ls "-FCt patch.2.0" 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes). README kits@12/ patches/ 226 Transfer complete. 27 bytes received in 0.20 seconds (0.13 Kbytes/s) ftp> ls "-FCt patch.2.0/patches" 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes). patch12 patch10 patch9 patch6 patch5 patch2 patch11 patch7 patch8 patch4 patch3 patch1 226 Transfer complete. 89 bytes received in 0.52 seconds (0.17 Kbytes/s) ftp> close 221 Goodbye. ftp> quit mahendo:2:19 % mconnect jpl-devvax connecting to host jpl-devvax (128.149.1.143), port 25 connection open 220 devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Sendmail 5.51/4.7 ready at Tue, 23 May 89 21:24:34 PDT VRFY lwall 250 Larry Wall <"| /u/sfoc/lwall/bin/mailagent /u/sfoc/lwall lwall Larry >>/u/sf oc/lwall/.maillog 2>&1"> QUIT 221 devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov closing connection mahendo:2:20 % patch -v $Header: patch.c,v 2.0.1.6 88/06/22 20:46:39 lwall Locked $ Patch level: 12 mahendo:2:21 % ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ `patch' hasn't had a new patch in almost a year. I hope that you can see that it is clearly at patch level 12, since this is Larry's machine. I hope this ends this discussion once and for all. - Greg Earle Sun Microsystems, Inc. JPL on-site Software Support earle@Sun.COM earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV (Guest)