From: Neil Bortnak <neil AT dreadnought DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: HELP! I can't make patch work!
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:21:40 -0700
Organization: Dreadnought Computer Consultants (Surrey, BC)
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I am trying to patch Nethack 3.2.0 into Nethack 3.2.1. I placed a copy
of the patch file (which I renamed Patch1) into nethack's top level
source code directory. From that directory I ran "patch < patch1". It
patched the first two files but kept saying "bad command of file name"
then quitting. I installed the diff package and that got rid of all but
one of the errors. I installed every package I could lay my hands on
hoping that one of them contained the file. No Luck. Here is the
relevant output of patch.exe:




|*** Old/Files  Tue May 28 17:20:00 1996
|--- ./Files    Fri May 24 15:25:04 1996
--------------------------
Hunk #1 ignored at 27.
Hunk #2 ignored at 97.
Hunk #3 ignored at 143.
Hunk #4 ignored at 164.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored--saving rejects to Files.rej
Can't backup Files.rej, output is in s:/compiler/djpp/tmp/pakcaaaa.tmp:
No such
file or directory (ENOENT)
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a new-style context diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|*** Old/README Tue May 28 17:20:05 1996
|--- ./README   Fri May 24 14:40:32 1996
--------------------------
Patching file README using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 62.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a new-style context diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|*** Old/dat/cmdhelp    Tue May 28 17:20:46 1996
|--- dat/cmdhelp        Wed May 22 17:53:27 1996
--------------------------
Comparing file cmdhelp to default SCCS version...
Bad command or file name
s:/compiler/djpp/bin/diff.exe: cmdhelp: No such file or directory
(ENOENT)
patch: **** can't check out file cmdhelp: differs from default SCCS
version




I am using djgpp v2 under Windows NT. Thanks in advance for any help
that you can offer.

					Neil