Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!codas!killer!billw From: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Applying news source patches Keywords: news, source, patches Message-ID: <2418@killer.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 00:01:34 GMT References: <2194@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) Organization: HASA Lines: 12 If you have the patch program by Larry Wall, patching is simple: cd to the directory where you have the news sources, and say "patch < filename-of-patch". The patch program (lwall's, anyway) automatically patches each file that is referenced in the patch file. Ed diffs are generated by SysV's diff program; they are basically ed input. Context diffs are much preferred by patch; these include several lines to either side of the changed portion. This greatly reduces chance for error. -- Bill Wisner, HASA "A" Division ..{codas,ihnp4}!killer!billw "This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force." -- Dorothy Parker