Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!cbuxc!cbuxb!cbrma!karl
From: karl@cbrma.att.com (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: How are diff files used to update the distribution ?
Message-ID: <5623@cbrma.att.com>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 16:29:26 EST
Article-I.D.: cbrma.5623
Posted: Tue Jan 20 16:29:26 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 23:21:38 EST
References: <8701192041.AA01426@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Organization: AT&T-BL, Columbus
Lines: 11

SKAPUR@sbccmail.BITNET writes:
>I copied version 18.33 of Gnu-emacs last month.
>I now also have the diff file diff-18.33-18.35.
>How can I use the diff file to update the 18.33 version to 18.35 ?

It requires that you get a copy of Larry Wall's patch program, which
reads diff files and applies the identified changes automatically to
your local copies of the files referenced.  Check your neighborhood
mod.sources archive for the latest patch.
-- 
Karl