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.