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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Patch 2.5.3 binaries on Windows 2000
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:53:29 +1000
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> > > I downloaded patch 2.5.3 binaries the other day and tried to run them
Windows
> > > 2000. I got error messages that made me think it has not been built
with the
> > > 2.03 refresh.
> >
> > Based on the dates, I don't think they have been refreshed.  I also
> > remember seeing problems in patch.
>
> IIRC, Patch was one of the original causes for the refresh: the bug in
> `rename' would completely break it on W2K.  So I'm surprised that it
> wasn't refreshed; perhaps I confuse with Andrew's binaries which are
> built with the CVS library.

I remember having problems with patch a long long time ago on 2K, which
would have made it during the time when DJGPP was almost running on 2K,
bleeding edge.

The patch 2.5.3 that I am using with the CVS built and re-built from CVS for
a long long time (at least since Oct/Nov) has worked on XP (& 2K when I had
it installed).

On a tangent: If there is a later version of patch instead of re-building
2.5.3 would it be worth updating to the latest release if there is a later
official release?

Regards,
Andrew