Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 13:47:26 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: patch 2.2 ported
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I have ported the latest GNU Patch 2.2 to DJGPP.  The new port was
uploaded to DJ's /incoming directory.  I would like people to use it
for a while before making it available on SimTel.NET, because the new
version has a lot of changes and I had to put in some non-trivial code
to make them work.  Most of this code was required to make patching
binary files work on MS-DOS.  (I tested it by diffing two versions of
the same program, then applying the diff to a copy of the old
version and comparing using `cmp'.)

Please tell me if you find any problems.  Note that the behavior of
the program has changed considerably (read the file NEWS).  In
particular, it is now by default silent about hunks that succeed, and
you need to give -p0 option if the diff includes slashes and you are
not in the target directory; backups are also off by default.  Don't
blame me: it's like that in the orginal GNU sources, presumably for
POSIX compliance.