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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Snags in 1.5.0 update
Message-ID: <18736@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 21:58:06 GMT
References: <1101@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <1101@crash.cts.com> cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:
>Can anyone explain how you patch ls and more in the 1.5 postings?  The 1.3
>patch copes with every other file without complaint, but not these two, even
>with maximum stack space and 1MB of /tmp.  Does the 1.5 patch work, or is
>there some trick I haven't found?

Do them by hand.  Since Andy ran the source through cb, virtually every
line is different.  So the cdif files consist mainly of large hunks that
need to be pasted together with little pieces of the original files.
I used sed to cut the first 2 bytes off of each line in the cdif and
then extracted the proper pieces of the original and cdif files with
mined.  Stick everything together with cat and you're done.  I got
patched files matching the crcs on my first attempt.

I think the problem is the size of the hunks in these particular cdifs.
I don't see how the 1.5 patch could do any better.  It's still limited
to <64K of stack!

Paul Allen
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