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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: patch problems (one more time...)
Message-ID: <18036@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 23:55:36 GMT
References: <17470@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <17470@louie.udel.EDU> HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu
(Guy Helmer) writes:
 > Recently I posted to the net asking for clues as to why patch is
 > operating poorly when faced with context diffs.  I have not seen any
 > responses nor have I noticed any others reporting similar problems.  I
 > seriously want to apply Bruce Evan's patches, so if anyone has a patch
 > binary that applies these patches without giving the operator severe
 > hassles I would appreciate (very much) hearing from you.  Thanks in
 > advance.

I use the patch binary that was posted to this group many months ago.  I
imagine that both the internet and bitnet archives have it.

I had trouble with one file, I think it was klib88.x or somesuch, that was
too big for patch to deal with.  Luckily, Bruce had included the entire
file, just packaged as a diff, so with sed and a little hand editing to
snip off the diff header I had the file.

The rest of the patches applied without trouble, and I was able to
compile and run the protected mode kernel with no more hassles.

Jaime
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