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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How to get patch running
Message-ID: <4626@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 19:06:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 19:06:43 1987
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Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
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Organization: Unisys - System Development Group, Santa Monica
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Keywords: patch diffs

The current patch level of patch is 8.  Some of the patches are fairly
important.  Here's an index:

1: Backwards scan for place to insert hunk can give up prematurely
2: patch can report a new-style context diff when it is really an old one
3: new-style diff with deletion can trigger spurious assertion failure
4: Certain long hunks are not dynamically allocated correctly
5: Patch misplaces patches when fuzz factor > 0
6: New-style context diffs can cause double call to free().
7: Some mangled patches result in misleading diagnostics.
8: Short replacement part causes spurious "Out of sync" message.

If you are missing patches they can be obtained from me:

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall

If you send a mail message of the following form it will greatly speed
processing:

 Subject: Command
 @SH mailpatch PATH patch 2.0 LIST

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 35- says everything from 35 to the end.

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall