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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: rn 4.3 patch #29
Message-ID: <799@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Aug-86 17:40:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.799
Posted: Sat Aug  2 17:40:19 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Aug-86 04:19:10 EDT
References: <2901@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <316@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <349@epimass.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <349@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <316@comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>>This patch fails because all the tabs have been converted to spaces. 
>
>The patch program has a -l (for "loose" ?) flag that considers all
>sequences of white space to be the same.  Try "patch -l" to apply
>this patch.

Thanks for the info.  The -l option worked just great.  As they say,
when all else fails: RTFM.
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