X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Google-Sender-Delegation: rcdailey AT gmail DOT com In-Reply-To: References: <500DA682 DOT 1060501 AT gmail DOT com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:52:51 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: patch not working on Windows 7 x64 From: Robert Dailey To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I did read the documentation, and obviously I'm still posting here because that didn't help. Everyone is pretty rude on this list... Feeding the file in from stdin like this does work, however the documentation makes it seem like I can pass the file name in directly and it will open it and read its contents. I guess not - it has misleading documentation. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> I've also tried: >> >> patch bug.patch > > Well, you should have read documentation, then tried "patch > Anton Lavrentiev > Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple