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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:10:34 +0000
From: Parish <parish AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: patch(1) (Win32) and path separators
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patch(1) on Win32 seems to insist on '\' rather than '/' in the paths in 
diffs. This is somewhat at odds with diff(1) which uses '/', even on 
Windows.

According to the manpage there is no option to change this behaviour.

I have d/l the sources but have yet to build it (am I correct that it 
needs gcc to build, i.e. won't build with MSVC++?) with the intention of 
making my own version that works with '/'.

Can anyone confirm that there isn't an undocumented option (cmd line or 
build) to make it use '/'? If there isn't, why is it that the Windows 
version works this way, especially when diff(1) DTRT?

Thanks.

Regards,

Parish



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