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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: MS-DOS patches to Scrabble
Message-ID: <16950001@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 89 16:40:38 GMT
References: <12202@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Re: Scrabble for MSDOS

Unhappily, the newly posted "diffs" for porting the recent "scrabble"
to MSDOS are defective.  The "patch" utility doesn't like them.  Here's
an example of one of the ".dif" files that were supplied.

The "move.dif" file contains exactly 4 lines:

	11a11,14
	> #ifdef MSDOS
	> typedef char bool;
	> #endif

As I understand the "diff" output that this is supposed to represent, it
says that FOUR lines (numbered 11, 12, 13, 14) are to be added AFTER the
the original line 11.  BUT only THREE additional lines are provided.
Furthermore, an additional line cannot be the same line number as the 
original line number.  Perhaps the "11a11,14" string should really be
"11a12,14"?

This error is simple enough to fix manually in this file, but other ".dif"
files are not so easy, as they contain combinations of changes and deletions.

Could the original poster of these "diffs" please mend the files so that we
can all enjoy the benefits of your labors?

Thanks,
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