X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:28:25 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: patch not working on Windows 7 x64 Message-ID: <20120723192825.GF17234@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jul 23 14:20, Robert Dailey wrote: > I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64 and when I run just 'patch', it > hangs and never returns. If I do 'patch --help', help is printed just > fine. I'm not sure why this is happening. > > Any help getting this working? Getting *what* working? If you just run patch without any options, then hanging is exactly the right thing to do for patch, since it's waiting for input. Try `man patch' and read about the -i option. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple