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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:46:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [Bug?] patchutils: interdiff /dev/stdin ... doesn't work
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.

> > 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 "-"?

That the /dev/stdin example from the interdiff manpage doesn't work on
Cygwin, and, more importantly, is not supposed to.

> I think people are more likely to try it and see, rather than bothering to
> look for the README.

They will hopefully look for the README when it doesn't work, though, to
see if it's a known problem.
	Igor
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