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From: roeder@robin.cs.uni-sb.de (Edgar &)
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Subject: Re: diff files
Summary: patch merges them
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Date: 7 Nov 90 16:37:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: clive@aldetec.oz.au's message of 6 Nov 90 01:46:11 GMT

In article <287@aldetec.oz.au> clive@aldetec.oz.au (Clive Salvidge) writes:
> But what are you ment to do with .dif files....
>  puzzled - (what magic utility merges them?)

What you are looking for is Larry Wall's patch program. This utility
takes an old file and a diff against the new version as input and
recreates the new version as output.
The source and a st binary can be found for example on cs.uni-sb.de
[134.96.7.254].

> ..Clive

	Hope this helps!

		- Edgar