Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <004501c3657f$289744c0$6b547ad5@starfruit> From: "Max Bowsher" To: Subject: patch unusable to apply patches to binary files Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:52:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Because patch always reads its input in textmode, it cannot be used to apply patches to binary files - e.g. gcc-core-3.3-3.3.1.diff, which updates binary .gmo files. I recall previous threads about patch and textmode/binmode issues, but searching for "patch textmode" failed to find them. Can anyone point me to mails explaining the current behaviour of patch? Thanks, Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/