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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!skybridge!wb8foz
  2. From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
  4. Subject: Re: Mailbox trimmer utility
  5. Date: 8 Nov 1992 15:17:20 GMT
  6. Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
  7. Lines: 22
  8. Message-ID: <1djb20INNk2k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
  9. References: <scs.720305938@hela.iti.org> <1992Oct29.145557.11890@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
  10. Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
  12. Summary: patch won't
  13. Keywords: don't know what I'm doing.....
  14.  
  15.  I tried to apply that patch and got the following:
  16.  
  17. >skybridge:/homes/wb8foz/tmp % patch <trim.1
  18. >Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
  19. >The text leading up to this was:
  20. >--------------------------
  21. >|*** trimheaders.old    Thu Oct 29 09:51:29 1992
  22. >|--- trimheaders    Thu Oct 29 09:51:45 1992
  23. >--------------------------
  24. >Patching file trimheaders using Plan A...
  25. >Hunk #1 failed at 4.
  26. >Hunk #2 failed at 74.
  27. >2 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to trimheaders.rej
  28. >done
  29. >skybridge:/homes/wb8foz/tmp % exit
  30.  
  31. Got any idea what I'm doing wrong?
  32. --
  33. A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
  34. & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
  35. Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
  36. is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
  37.