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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:49:32 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools?
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In-Reply-To: <200107170940.KAA15755@ireserver.Ireland.Sun.COM>; from Armin.Theissen@Sun.COM on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:40:12AM +0100

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:40:12AM +0100, Armin Theissen wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I searched the website for this problem, but cannot find anything 
> so I want to ask you here. 
> 
> I have a patch (see attachment, supposed to patch three files down the 
> directory tree) which won't work using the patch.exe tool provided with 
> cygwin. However, it works perfectly with other patch.exe tools 
> (UnxUtils from http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html)
> and on unix systems itself. 
> 
> I wonder what could make the patch work with the cygwin patching 
> tool. 
> 
> The patch command is 'patch -b -p2'
> 
> Any ideas? 

Without details about the error you get from patch? No.

Corinna

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