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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: "diff files": how to use?
Keywords: diff
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Date: 8 Apr 91 21:42:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.195159.6848@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
|> 	Hi, everyone.  I apologize if this is a simple question.  I have
|> several "diff files" and I don't know how they are used.  I did a man
|> on "diff" and read the FAQ, but neither seemed to help.  Thanks for any
|> help.  A sample of my diff file is appended.

  You apply them to the original files using the "patch" program.  If you have
patch installed, do "man patch".  If you don't have it installed, you can get
the sources via anonymous ftp from /pub/gnu on prep.ai.mit.edu, in the file
patch-2.0.12u3.tar.Z.

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