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From: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: More sed(1) fixes
Summary: Get thee hence to thy friendly neighborhood archive site and pick up patch.
Message-ID: <3613@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 03:29:23 GMT
References: <14048@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <1695TAR@MAINE> <1989Aug11.055037.1847@plains.NoDak.edu> <1705TAR@MAINE>
Reply-To: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, ECN
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In article <1705TAR@MAINE> TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) writes:
>In article <1989Aug11.055037.1847@plains.NoDak.edu>, ncoverby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) says:
>>And how do you apply them?  With patch, of course (unless your a machoist).

>    Some people run MINIX on SMALL computers and don't have such marvelous
>tools. If only IBM would market PC-AIX!!!

  Said "marvelous tool" is a freeware Unix program written by Larry Wall
and available at any friendly comp.sources.unix archive site.  Patch will
compile and run just fine under Minix, even on your IBM PC.  You will need
to fiddle about with the config.h file, as Larry Wall's auto-configure
shell script may not work under Minix (it didn't under 1.1, I haven't 
tried it under a more recent version).  Still, you can have Patch on your
system.  For free, yet.  So pick yourself up a copy of the source and
have at it.  And mellow out a little, will you?
  P.S. I somehow doubt PC/AIX would have come with Patch, either.  I'm
not sure any Unix distribution comes with Patch, except maybe BSD4.3.  
-- 
Richard Todd   rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us  or  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  
                                    aka     ...!sun!texsun!uokmax!rmtodd
"Never re-invent the wheel unnecessarily; yours may have corners."-henry@utzoo