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Subject: Re: [Bug?] patchutils: interdiff /dev/stdin ... doesn't work
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:30:22 -0000
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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.


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