Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pcrat!rick From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (rick) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Context Diffs! Message-ID: <369@pcrat.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 21:17:49 EDT Article-I.D.: pcrat.369 Posted: Mon Aug 17 21:17:49 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Aug-87 01:49:18 EDT References: <1319@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 14 Summary: Aarrg! In article <1319@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, tytso@thor.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes: > > Finally, I'd like to make a plea for context diffs! It makes it a *lot* > easier to install patches, since with ed diffs, there's so little > redundant information I wasn't sure whether I had installed the patch > correctly or not. The fact that I had to have to original sources wasn't > *that* painful, since it was under RCS, but still... But of course, my version must have gotten 'modified' before I got the patches, cause now it core dumps on the first command! -- Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc. (201) 542-3734 (voice, nights) OR (201) 834-1378 (voice, days) seismo!uunet!; X splim