From: Neil Bortnak <neil AT dreadnought DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: HELP! I can't make patch work!
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:18:50 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Neil Bortnak wrote:
> 
> > 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"
> 
> Is this `patch' from DJGPP v2.01?  If not, please download the latest
> pat21b.zip and try it.  The latest DOS port has eliminated many bugs like
> the one you describe.  If the problem persists, post the patch here.

I believe I have the answer. The magic command line is not (for this
patch anyway): patch < patch1   but    patch -p < patch1. Now it can
find all the files. I still don't know about those command not found but
as it no longer affects me I'm willing to let that one go. Thanks
everyone for your input, mail or newsgroup.

						Neil

P.S. Play Nethack!