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: <024701c4c6bc$c04f24a0$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <03ec01c4c506$b2e90db0$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Bug?] patchutils: interdiff /dev/stdin ... doesn't work Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:30:22 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Patchutils has no special handling of "-" as an argument. > > Well, given that one of the examples on the interdiff webpage (and a very > useful one, I might add) doesn't work properly on Cygwin, I wonder whether > special handling of "-" should be added to at least the Cygwin version of > patchutils... No, but perhaps it should be added to the *upstream* version of patchutils. I've added it to my personal issue tracker. > An alternative would be to implement /dev/std* in Cygwin. > At the very least, this should be mentioned in the Cygwin-specific > patchutils readme. What? That patchutils doesn't support "-"? I think people are more likely to try it and see, rather than bothering to look for the README. 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/