From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro WIP diffs don't work Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 19:54:42 +0000 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <01bce161$5cb0cfe0$7734989e AT farout DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 26 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Richard Mitton writes: >I've just downloaded the October 19th diffs for Allegro, and applied them >over my September 28th original. Everything works fine, except for the demo >program and the new keyboard layout thing. I have found the source of the >problem - the patch program hasn't updated demo.dat and keyboard.dat. >Looking through the .diff file, I see that the aren't actually in there! Indeed they are not: the diff command I used seems to have just skipped these binary files. I'm no expert on using diff: is there any easy way to make it work with these? All I can find in the info pages is a comment explaining that it usually skips binary files, and I don't think I can just tell it to treat them all as text because CR/LF sequences would get corrupted... In any case, I don't think this is such a huge problem. I didn't put the .dat files in the patch zip, and I probably wouldn't want to include them in a diff either, because they are quite large. The diff files are intended for people who want to keep up with the latest WIP developments without having too much to download, and I think most such people would rather just live without the demo game, that have to download a 500k binary patch :-) -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.