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From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: rn 4.3 patch #29
Message-ID: <334@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 3-Aug-86 19:10:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: comp.334
Posted: Sun Aug  3 19:10:18 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Aug-86 02:04:21 EDT
References: <2901@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <316@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <349@epimass.UUCP>
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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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.

That's all fine and dandy, but it avoids the real issue that NO SITE SHOULD BE
CONVERTING TABS TO SPACES.  Furthermore, appliying this patch as you suggest
may cause subsequent patches to fail as the new lines will not match the lines
in future patches.

P.S.  Site "topaz" has since been found not guilty.  Could I ask the news
administrators of the remaining sites to check and take remedial action if
necessary.
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