From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: patch
8 Mar 1998 20:14:52 -0800
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To: David Fox <fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu>, Geoffroy Montel <g_montel AT yahoo DOT com>
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At 12:56 PM 3/8/98 -0500, David Fox wrote:
>Geoffroy Montel <g_montel AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
>
>> There's a slight bug in the patch command: the files processed by
>> "patch" then have the DOS format.... a bit annoying isn't it?
>
>"sed" does the same thing.
>-- 
>David Fox	   http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox		xoF divaD
>NYU Media Research Lab   fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu   baL hcraeseR aideM UYN

For those seeing this problem, are you sure you have your file systems mounted
as binary?  If not, you'll see this.  I don't want this to degenerate into a
holy war about how things should be but if mounts are not binary, you could
conceivably categorize most of these tools as broken.  But please, let's not
run through the whole list here...


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