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From: pcoen@daniel.drew.edu (Paul Coen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit patch level indication?
Message-Id: <1995Feb6.102932.115562@daniel>
Date: 6 Feb 95 10:29:32 ETST
References: <1995Jan27.211502.19910@lafn.org> <3grnfb$o5v@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <3grnfb$o5v@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> Since the release of MS-DOS Kermit 3.14, there have been persistent reports
> that patches don't seem to "stick". That is, after giving a PATCH command,
> the patch level is still reported as 0. This can happen if the patch file is
> transferred to the PC from a UNIX system in binary mode, so the lines end
> with LF rather than CRLF -- DOS does not recognize the line boundaries and
> therefore Kermit does not see valid patches. Cure: make sure each line ends
> with CRLF. Fix it in an editor, or re-transfer the file in text mode.
>
There's one other way for this to happen -- if you don't have the fixed release
of 3.14 from January 18th, but instead have the initial "final" release,
the patch files won't work because it's the wrong version.
I managed to ftp the new version, and then forgot to actually install
it, and later spent about ten minutes trying to figure out why the patch
files wouldn't work.