The SET commands allow the user to modify the PATCH evironment.

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ECOMODEMODULEPATCH_AREASCOPE

     Use SET ECO to define the ECO level for the ensuing patch.

     Whenever you apply a patch to an image file,  the  first  command
     you  type should be a SET ECO command.  This command provides you
     with a way to identify  your  patches  easily.   More  important,
     however,  it  lets  you  process selected patches using a command
     procedure.  When PATCH processes a command procedure, it searches
     the  file  for  ECO  levels  and  processes  only  those  patches
     represented by the specified ECO levels.  Patches not represented
     by ECO levels are not processed.

     You can issue as many SET ECO  commands  as  necessary  during  a
     PATCH  session;   however,  once  you  specify an ECO level, that
     level can never be used again for  that  particular  image  file.
     Furthermore,  whenever  you begin a patch with a SET ECO command,
     you must also terminate the patch with the  UPDATE  command.   If
     you  fail to issue the UPDATE command (1) the ECO level specified
     with the SET ECO command is not applied (hence, the patch is  not
     applied  to the image file), and (2) you cannot issue another SET
     ECO command.

Format:

     SET ECO eco-level

Prompts:

        ECO> eco-level

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Parameters

eco-level
     Specifies a decimal integer between 1 and  128,  inclusive.   ECO
     levels outside this range of integers are illegal.

     Use SET MODE to  specify  default  settings  for  the  entry  and
     display modes.

Format:

     SET MODE mode [,...]

Prompts:

        NEW> mode

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Parameters

mode
     Specifies one or more modes from the context, radix, length,  and
     symbol  search

mode  categories to be established as the current
     modes.  These modes determine how PATCH  interprets  entries  and
     displays output.

     The commands that are affected by the entry and display modes are
     DELETE, DEPOSIT, EVALUATE, EXAMINE, INSERT, REPLACE, and VERIFY.

     See HELP MODE QUALIFIERS.  Strip off the leading "/" from the
     qualifier name for use with the SET MODE command.

     You can override a mode setting by  specifying  a  mode  qualifier
     with other PATCH commands.

     Use SET  MODULE  to  enter  local  symbol  information  from  the
     specified   modules  into  PATCH's  symbol  table  (provided  you
     followed the  rules  for  passing  local  symbol  information  to
     PATCH).   If  the  symbol  table  is too small to accommodate the
     local symbol information, PATCH displays an  error  message.   If
     you  are  patching  a  shareable image, no local or global symbol
     information is passed to PATCH;  only universal  symbols  can  be
     accessed.

Format:

     SET MODULE module-name [,...]

Prompts:

        NAM> module-name

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ParametersQualifiers

module-name
     Specifies the name of one or more modules whose local symbols are
     to be entered in the symbol table.

     Do not specify a module name if you include the /ALL qualifier.

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/ALL

     Requests that local symbol information from all  the  modules  in
     the image file be entered in the symbol table.

     Use SET PATCH_AREA to override the use of PATCH's  default  patch
     area  in favor of a patch area you defined at assembly or compile
     time.  Whenever you use a user-defined patch area, its patch area
     descriptor is updated to reflect any modifications.  More information
     on PATCH_AREA can be found in The VAX/VMS Utilities Reference Volume.

Format:

  SET PATCH_AREA [/INITIALIZE=size_expression] address_of_string_descriptor

Prompts:

        [NEW> size_expression]
         NEW> address_of_string_descriptor

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Parameters

/INITIALIZE

     The /INITIALIZE qualifier allows the user to predeclare patch area
     in a program without the neccessity of creating a patch area desc-
     riptor.  The patch area size is declared in bytes.  If the value of
     the size argument is specified as 0 or is greater than the number of
     bytes contained in the patch area, PATCH will assume the default
     size to be the maximum number of bytes contained in the patch area's
     image section.  An informational message will be issued to notify the
     user that PATCH has taken this action.  /INITIALIZE must precede the
     address_of_string_descriptor.

address-of-string-descriptor
     Defines the address of the patch area descriptor.  The patch area
     descriptor can be represented as a symbolic or a numeric address.

size_expression
     The size in bytes of the patch area.  This may be any valid expression,
     symbolic or numeric value.

     Use SET SCOPE to establish the specified module name (and routine
     name,  if  specified)  as  the  explicit  scope  to  be  used for
     translating pathnames and symbols into values.

     If the local symbols in a specific module have not  been  entered
     in  the  symbol  table  by  the SET MODULE command, the SET SCOPE
     command forces those symbols into the table.  If the symbol table
     is  too  small  to  accommodate this information, PATCH issues an
     error message.

     Use the SHOW MODULE command to determine the modules to which the
     scope can be set.

Format:

     SET SCOPE module-name [\routine-name [\...]]

Prompts:

        NEW> module-name [\routine-name]

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Parameters

module-name
     Specifies the name of the module to which the scope is to be set.

routine-name
     Specifies the name of a routine contained in the module to  which
     the scope is to be set.