Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!datlog!dlhpedg!cl
From: cl@dlhpedg.co.uk (Charles Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Applying bug-fixes
Message-ID: <335@dlhpedg.co.uk>
Date: 15 Dec 87 12:38:05 GMT
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Reply-To: cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert)
Organization: FSG@Data Logic Ltd, Queens House, Greenhill Way, Harrow, London.
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Bug fixes are often posted to the net in a kind of diff(1) format that
our diff(1) won't produce.  It looks like this:

****oldfile****
----newfile----

***51,52***
---51,53---

    some arbitrary code;
!	sometimes with key characters at the start of a line;

Two questions:
1)	How can I produce such a listing?
2)	Is there a tool to automatically apply the patch?

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Charles Lambert	ukc!datlog!dlhpedg!cl