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PATCH VERIFY — VMS 5.0

Use VERIFY to confirm that  a  location  or  several  consecutive
locations contain the specified contents (instructions or data).

Generally, you should use the VERIFY  command  with  the  DEPOSIT
command.  The DEPOSIT command does not confirm the entries before
overwriting them.   Therefore,  to  make  certain  you  know  the
contents of the locations that will be modified, issue the VERIFY
command first.

The VERIFY command is also useful when you are patching an  image
file  by means of a command procedure.  Using the VERIFY command,
you can check particular locations before  attempting  to  modify
them.   If  the  VERIFY command fails, that patch is not applied,
and PATCH skips to the next SET ECO command.  If no other SET ECO
command exists, the command procedure is terminated.

Format:

     VERIFY location = current-contents [,...]

          Mode Qualifiers                 Default
          ____ __________                 _______

          /BYTE
          /WORD                           /LONG
          /LONG

          /OCTAL
          /DECIMAL                        /HEXADECIMAL
          /HEXADECIMAL

          /[NO]ASCII                      /NOASCII
          /[NO]INSTRUCTION                /NOINSTRUCTION
          /[NO]SYMBOLS                    /SYMBOLS

          /[NO]GLOBALS                    /NOGLOBALS
          /[NO]SCOPE                      /SCOPE

Prompts:

        LOC> location
        OLD> current-contents

Additional information available:

Parameters

Parameters

location
     Specifies either (1) a single location whose contents are  to  be
     checked  or  (2)  the starting address of a sequence of locations
     whose contents are to be checked.

current-contents
     Specifies  one  or  more  data  entries  or  instructions  to  be
     verified.  The data or instructions you verify must be the actual
     contents.

     Do not specify conflicting data  types  within  a  single  VERIFY
     command.

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