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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl Patches Applied
Keywords: patch
Message-ID: <8535@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 29 Jun 90 02:07:26 GMT
References: <540@synopsys.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <540@synopsys.COM> stevej@synopsys.synopsys.com (Steven Jukoff) writes:
: I received and attempted to apply all 18 patches at once.
: In the directory containing Perl source I tried:
: 
: foreach i (patch*)
: 	patch < $i
: end

That won't work for two reasons.  First, you didn't invoke patch with
the switches indicated in the directions.  Second, if your files are
named patch1 .. patch18, you're going to apply them in lexicographic
order rather than numeric.  You wanted

    foreach i (patch? patch??)
	    patch -p -N < $i
    end

The -p tells it to use the full pathnames instead of assuming everything
is in the current directory.  The -N says to assume that no patches are
reversed.  You might be able to get away without the -N, but the -p is
essential.

By now your kits are probably mangled, and you'll have to start with
fresh kits.

Larry