Article 4679 of alt.sys.pdp10: Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!uunet!ffx.uu.net!in3.uu.net!world!weiner From: weiner@world.std.com (Sam Weiner) Subject: Re: question about autopatch tapes Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 06:05:21 GMT References: <36b25f93.5680658@news.zoomnet.net> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Lines: 25 Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:4679 In article <36b25f93.5680658@news.zoomnet.net>, Patrick Donini wrote: >On 28 Jan 1999 15:53:14 -0800, Eric Smith > wrote: snip... >I believe the last autopatch tapes required an unlock key to decrypt >the backup savesets on the autopatch tape. Actually, the last autopatch tapes weren't autopatch tapes, they were TSU (TOPS Software Update) tapes. Getting the keys to the right customers was a bit of a pain especially since the wrong key was sent out for one product on its last release tape and a special tape had to be made. This was post TOPS-10 7.04 and TOPS-20 7.0. TSU replaced whole files instead of using SOUP/CAM/whatever to update sources or DDT to update object only products (e.g. RMS or DBMS.) Not only was this easier when installing the updates, it was a whole lot easier to create the updates (especially the DDT patches.) Sam