The program package to generate and apply patch files. Sometimes you will also find patch files made with BinPatch addressed as "a "binpatch" or "binpatches".
A program being used by developers to generate programs. Normally they include some standard functionality along with every program, which is common for all programs made with the same compiler.
Name of the program to apply patches that are not executable, so-called plain patch files. This program is part of BinPatch and available in versions with command line interfaces for various platforms as well as with windows interfaces.
Technique for DOS-programs to access more memory than DOS normally can. Every DOS-box of Windows or OS/2 has a DPMI-server built-in which programs can access. This is exactly what GenPatch for DOS needs and you only need to supply a DPMI-Server on your own, when want you use GenPatch under pure DOS. Again: No need for an external DPMI-Server when you use the DOS-Version under Win95, OS/2, ... only under 'plain' DOS.
Name of the program to generate patches, part of BinPatch.
This is how the new filenames introduced with Windows 95 are called. They need not conform to the old DOS-conventions. You can have filenames with more than 8 characters, more than one dot within them and any number of characters after a dot. (Only the DoPatches for Windows 95/NT can work with these filenames, but not DoPatch for DOS or Windows3.1. If you need to update software that runs on both platforms be sure to choose a DoPatch for the later, since it's the lowest common denominator.)
There are situations when you may have to update several similar files or directories. You could supply two different patch files to update version 2.0a and 2.0b to 2.1. Using Multi-version patching you can generate a patch file containing info on how to update both with only one patch file with normally only minimal increased size of the patch file, saving you and your customers a lot of hassle when dealing with release control.
A special file (BinPatch normally uses the suffix ".utp" for them, therefore also called utp-file) that carries information needed by DoPatch to create a newer version of a file from a older version the patch is related to. As a special feature of BinPatch you may supply a complete directory structure to be patched with only a single patch file.
This is how repeated occurrence of chunks of data is called. BinPatch recognizes redundancy very good, e.g. when you have an article and another articles that quotes it (with '>' or similar) in the same file. Such redundancy is not well recognized by other patching tools, but it is dealt superb with if you enable the GenPatch option "-r". For Example: In the word "Mississippi" you can find the chunk "iss" two times. BinPatch can take advantage of such phenomenon to shorten file information by referring to already written parts!
This term refers to file archives in form of executable files that unpack their contents when executed. You need no unpacker for those, they unpack themselves.
Part of a program that has no special function, but exists nevertheless and increases the file size of your software.