Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob
From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: diffs
Message-ID: <28757@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 88 20:02:05 GMT
References: <499@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
Lines: 11

In article <499@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jeremy Teitelbaum) writes:
>1.  How are these [context diffs] produced?

Usually with `diff -rc2`.

>2.  Is there an automatic procedure for incorporating changes
>described in this way into files?

Use Larry Wall's patch(1), available via anonymous FTP from
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu or via uucp from osu-cis, as well as from a lot
of other places.