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From: mdb@silvlis.COM (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: using patch (was Re: Xman and fixes)
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Date: 9 Feb 89 17:30:37 GMT
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> Date: 7 Feb 89 16:37:20 GMT
> From: faline.bellcore.com!sword!yba  (Mark Levine)
> ...
> [We need a way to stop the automatic -R option in patch in cases where
> things go wrong; staying in sync when a patch is on its way in in half
> the source files and on its way out in the other half gets tricky!
> Read those output logs.... :-)]
> ...

If you use the latest version of patch (patch-2.0 patchlevel 12),
which is in X.V11R3/util/patch look at the documentation for the -N
(causes patch to ignore patches that it thinks are reversed or already
applied). I typically use a command like:

	patch -N -p < ~/x11r3fixes/1

Enjoy!
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