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From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: patch and GNU diff woes
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Date: 12 Jul 90 15:16:04 GMT
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Sorry that I haven't had time to look at the source code and ferret these
out myself, but here's the problem I had:

On my ALR 286/12.5 MHz (not that it's really relevant), running diff with
directories caused the machine to hang.

At work on a true blue IBM PC/AT, running patch out of D:\BIN with the
following command line:

	patch -c -o old\test1.new test1.new <patch.dif

cause the following error:

	patch: couldn't create D:\/patchpxxxxxx

Note that I was on the C: drive at the time.  I think that patch needs
a little more patching before all will be well. :-)


Anyone have this problem?

Neil





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