Article 151287 of comp.os.vms:
We've used Patch on VAX for a long time, simply to turn off the LNKDEBUG bit in
the image header:

$ patch/absolute/journal=nl:/output='p2' 'p1'
$deck
examine/byte 20			! 50 for Alpha
deposit/byte 20=<\@-1>@1	! 50 for Alpha
update
exit
$eod

This means we can leave full debug info in the image (which gives us an
overhead on disk, but no significant run-time overhead, I believe), we can
RUN/DEBUG or ANAL/PROC if we want to, but normal use (either RUN, RUN process,
MCR or foreign command invocation) doesn't get the debugger.

Any suggestions on how to do this on Alpha ? Can PATCH be VESTed ?
RUN/NODEBUG isn't enough, since we do use the other ways of invoking images.

Thanks,
Chris Sharman