13 Nov
2020
13 Nov
'20
2:15 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Yeah, they did have a habit of being permanent, but I don't recall
them ever being called by any of those names during my servitude.
-- Dave
Program
Temporary Fix.
Yes. But I recall correctly. See the Wikipedia page:
Customers sometimes explain the acronym in a tongue-in-cheek manner as
permanent temporary fix or more practically probably this fixes,
because they have the option to make the PTF a permanent part of the
operating system if the patch fixes the problem.