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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!tchrist
  3. From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
  4. Subject: Re: Applying Patches
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul29.181501.11419@news.eng.convex.com>
  6. Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
  7. Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com
  9. Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
  10. Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
  11. References: <1992Jul29.095000.147953@okcadm>
  12. Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:15:01 GMT
  13. X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
  14.               Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
  15.               not necessarily those of CONVEX.
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  17.  
  18. From the keyboard of jsmckay@okcadm.okanagan.bc.ca (da d00d cometh):
  19. :I am having problems applying a patch to a program.  I enter 
  20. :sh patch and I cannot get it to work correctly.  What am I doing
  21. :wrong??
  22.  
  23. The zeroth thing you're doing wrong is not providing a sufficiently
  24. detailed description of what you're trying to do, what you type, and
  25. what it says back.
  26.  
  27. But now that I think about it, since patch is a C program, not a shell
  28. script, typing "sh patch" isn't going to help youmuch.
  29.  
  30. Did you RTFpatchM?
  31.  
  32. --tom
  33. -- 
  34.     Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
  35.  
  36.     "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
  37.      that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
  38.