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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:33:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: patch not working on Windows 7 x64
From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey DOT lists AT gmail DOT com>
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Well it hangs no matter what I do, I've also tried:

patch bug.patch

And it still hangs...

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:31 PM, marco atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On 7/23/2012 9:20 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
>>
>> I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64 and when I run just 'patch', it
>> hangs and never returns. If I do 'patch --help', help is printed just
>> fine. I'm not sure why this is happening.
>>
>> Any help getting this working?
>>
>
> Are you sure to have read the manual ?
> From "man patch"
> ---------------------------------------------
> NAME
>        patch - apply a diff file to an original
>
> SYNOPSIS
>        patch [options] [originalfile [patchfile]]
>
>        but usually just
>
>        patch -pnum <patchfile
> [cut]
> ------------------------------------------------
> if you give no patchfile "patch" is waiting the diff
> from stdin, so it is not hanging at all
>
> Marco
>
>
>
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