From: Neil Roy <nitehackr AT sprint DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Allegro diff patch problem
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:41:05 -0400
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I have been using allegro 3.0 with the newest gnu/djgpp compiler (2.8.1
?) and I tried patching Allegro's difmay30.diff and I got an error.  I
followed instructions to the letter, I re-installed Allegro 3.0, then I
unzipped DIFMAY30.ZIP to my DJGPP directory (using the -d option in
pkunzip), everything went where it was supposed to, allegro installed
fine (I have installed and used it just fine in the past, no problems
worth mentioning)

Here is what the docs say to do:

You should be one level up from the Allegro directory (in the djgpp
directory), then type:
patch -p1 < difmay30.diff

I typed it and got this error:
Error: Unable to open patch file (-p1) for reading

...upon looking at the patch command I got this syntax:

patch [-u] diffile profile [patchedfile]

I though I might be using a different patch command, seeing as how i
don't delete anything installed I checked my entire hard drive for
another patch command... there was only one so I was using the right
one.  I tried just "patch difmay30.dif" and "patch -u difmay30.dif"
etc...  nothing works at all.  I followed instructions.  NOTHING is more
frustrating than when you follow instructions and you get an error...
doesn't anyone test these things before they release them?  Ah well... I
don't want to sound unapreaciative but it is aggrivating.  Could someone
please help me with this, I will email Shawn as well but I don't know
how busy he is and figured I could get a quicker response from here.
Please reply via email as well as in here (I keep my emails in case I
forget or whatever :)).

Thanks in advance.
Neil Roy