RAJAH@UREGINA1.BITNET ("A. Mahendra RAJAH") (05/27/87)
I called Colorado TSC 2 weeks ago and requested the patch. I was told that there was a big back log in sending out these patches as there were many many requests. I was even told that the person responsible for sending these out was hiding in the back rooms preparing floppies and TU58's for mailing out. But they promised me that mine will be sent to me within 7 days. Well, 7 days later I got a phone call from a nice fellow at TSC telling me that Federal Express (their regular shipper) will not (I mean does not) deliver to my province (it is Saskatchewan, by the way - Hello Federal Express??). But this nice fellow volunteered to login into our system and leave a copy of the patch with checksums all. I gave him an unprivileged username and 5 minutes later I had the patch. Thanks TSC! I applied the patch to SECURESHR on our 8600 and 785, rebooted the systems and went home happily. I had a good night's sleep too! No, we didn't re-link any of our images and we haven't noticed any prblems YET!
tedcrane@batcomputer.UUCP (05/29/87)
We received today--in the mail--a copy of what appears to be the same patch...from SDC! Apparently the patch is being distributed to all VMS customers with software maintenance.