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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Patch #1 for news 2.11 source
Message-ID: <3463@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 18:06:17 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.3463
Posted: Mon Nov 24 18:06:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Nov-86 00:10:30 EST
References: <42090@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <685@epimass.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica
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In article <685@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>If you're running patch version 2.0, you won't be able to install the
>patch to the news software unless you've installed patches up to
>patchlevel 3 (as far as I know, there are four patches available).
>Otherwise, patch blows up when attempting to patch inews.c.
>
>I don't know whether older versions of patch (say, v1.3) have this
>problem.

Version 1.3 won't install new-style diffs.  Not even the version that
comes with 4.3 does it quite right.

The current patchlevel of patch 2.0 is 5.  If you are installing the 2.11
patches on stock files patchlevel 3 will work fine.  If you try to install
the patches onto files which have been localized, patch may botch the
fuzz factors and mangle your file.  That's what patch 5 is about.  As long
as patch doesn't say anything about fuzz factors, though, you're fine.

You can get patches from me automatically if you send a message of the following
form:

Subject: Command
@SH mailpatch PATH patch 2.0 LIST
	   ^ note the c

where PATH is a return path FROM ME TO YOU in bang notation, and LIST
is the number of one or more patches you need, separated by spaces,
commas, and/or hyphens.  Saying 4- says everything from 4 to the end.

Larry Wall
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