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- From: nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Applying patches to software from FTP archives
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 23:35:17 GMT
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- I've already received an answer from Trip Martin (night@acm.rpi.edu).
- He says:
-
- > If you have Larry Wall's patch program, you don't need to [apply the
- > patch by hand]. Just
- > type "patch -p -f < mmv.patch1". If you don't have patch, I strongly
- > suggest you get it, since it's a very useful utility if you pull much
- > software off the net. Oh, and you don't need to strip any lead-in
- > comments as patch knows to skip that (patch is quite intelligent).
-
- Thanks Trip.
-
- Norm Hoffman
- nghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com
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