Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 14-Sep-1989 patch for C News
Message-ID: <1989Sep16.224838.22840@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Sep14.200112.6029@utzoo.uucp> <224f.2511f7ff@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 89 22:48:38 GMT

In article <224f.2511f7ff@ibmpcug.co.uk> Ronald.Khoo@ibmpcug.CO.UK writes:
>>*** cnpatch/tmp.file	Thu Sep 14 15:54:41 1989
>>--- relay/regress/out/stderr	Wed Sep 13 20:35:17 1989
>
>I got a problem with this one. It seems to want on of these:
>*** cnpatch/tmp.preposterously.long.name.to.make.patch.behave.right	
>or it screws up itself and the next patch.

SIGH.  Sorry about that.  It's really tricky to make patch do what you
want sometimes, and this was a case I hadn't run into before -- the old
stderr file is empty and hence patch is considering it nonexistent (!)
and applying default rules to decide which file to create.  As it turns
out, this particular case is fairly harmless, but I'll issue a correction.

>>(suggested archive name: `pch14Sep89.Z')
>err.. that makes the collating order inconvenient..

Well, I didn't pick that naming convention; it's the one Rich Salz has
been using for c.s.u. patch archiving.  I must admit that I find it very
annoying to have to choose between intelligible month names and collating
order, though.  The solution I tend to prefer personally is to use "ls -tr"
rather than shell globbing to get the order right.
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