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Subject: Re: Stupid(?) Question
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In-Reply-To: weltyc@nisc.nyser.net's message of 22 Oct 87 19:42:44 GMT

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>	This may seem like a silly question, but is there an easy way
>to update my GNU emacs src by using the diff files that are provided
>on prep?  

Yes.  Use the "patch" program.  It takes a diff file as input and
modifies the changed files appropriately.  Syntax is something like: 

patch -pc < <diff-file>

Patch is fairly sophisticated; I believe it can apply patches generated
from diffs of varying types--context, ed script, etc.

I don't believe patch is standard UNIX equipment, but there is
probably a copy of the source on prep.

markl

Internet: markl@ptt.lcs.mit.edu

Mark L. Lambert
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Distributed Systems Group

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