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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PATCH utility needed
Summary: Watch the line terminators: ^J vs ^J^M
Keywords: patch ST newline
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.042250.26102@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Feb 91 04:22:50 GMT
References: <1991Feb3.132030.6405@tertius.in-berlin.de> <4823@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <4823@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>
>I have a patch.ttp on my atari but I had some problems with it. It didn't
>accept some perfectly correct patches. I don't know where I got it.
>
I don't know if this is the problem, but the version of patch.ttp that I have
is definitely sensitive to the difference between lines ending in ^J only
(UNIX style) and those ending in ^J^M (most ST editors, and the desktop).
I haven't characterized the EXACT behavior, but I get the best results
by putting both main file and patch into UNIX style before applying the 
patch.                            Steve          saj@chinet.chi.il.us