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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:05:55 -0500
To: Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Allegro WIP
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 03:04 PM 3/30/98 +0100, you wrote:

>Can you give some more details about exactly what the problem seems
>to be, and what errors messages you are getting? Nobody can help you
>unless you try to describe the problem to us...

>Experience ought not to be required: in theory you just run the
>patch program and it magically works :-)
>
>	Shawn Hargreaves.

Hello Shawn:

I just finished doing it again, following instructions. Allegro has not be
tampered with except to play the demo  game which worked fine.

After firing off patch -p1 < difmar19.diff [This time I even included the
extra f which I ignored before]
this is what happened (just as before):

After 18 lines of "patching file..." notes, it stopped and I saw this:

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R?  [n]

Not having the foggiest what this meant I just hit Enter.

Then it said:

Apply anyway?  [n]

Again not knowing what to do I hit Enter.

Then it went to a conclusion, but on the way there were some discouraging
remarks which I do not understand.

Now, maybe the problem is I did not answer the questions properly.

I would like wait until I hear from you before I do a "make" as to what I
should have done in response these inquiries.

I have never installed a patch where I had to respond to questions--I know,
I know, I am a newbie dummy, but I have done pretty good so far with
DJGPP/RHIDE/ALLEGRO/SET and so on.

Please help.

Ralph


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