Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/20/03:14:17
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:
> I have a question about using patch v2.5 (under bash 1.14.7 with djgpp
> 2.03 and MS-DOS 5.0).
DJGPP v2.03 wasn't yet released. I believe you meant v2.02.
> Suppose I want to update a single file. My experience suggests that
> patch cannot extract the relevant patch(es) from the larger patchfile
> and apply them; instead I must copy the relevant patches to another
> patchfile, specific to the program to be patched, and then apply that
> (program-specific) patchfile.
>
> Is this correct?
Basically, yes.
Of course, if you use Emacs, you can mark just the part of the large
patchfile and then launch Patch with shell-command-on-region command
(press `Alt-|' ;-).
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