From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: Patching under cygwin32 and W95
28 Apr 1998 22:17:24 -0700 :
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To:	David Bush <david DOT bush AT adn DOT alcatel DOT com>, xemacs-nt AT xemacs DOT org
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
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Hi David,

Are you positive that you are using the patch binary from the CDK? 
While in bash if you do "type patch" what is the result?

I have been built the patch binary with mingw32.  I saw this error as
a direct result of link/unlink of temporary to existing files.  I
modified the code so that it uses Win32 calls to take care of the
rename/copy.  

If you wish to try my version of patch I can strip and gzip the
executable and attach it to an email.  I have been successful in using
it; at least with context diffs.

---David Bush <david DOT bush AT adn DOT alcatel DOT com> wrote:
>
> I apologize if this question has come up before.  The gnuwin32 mail
archives
> are not much use on this one because a search for "patch" returns
most of
> the archive.
> 
> I'm trying to apply a large patch for Xemacs to the source tree. 
The patch
> application fails on the first file in the patch with a message like:
> cannot rename /tmp/ps001020 to CHANGES-beta: File exists.
> 
> Is this a know problem and is there a workaround?
> 
> TIA,
> david
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