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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:12:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: using patch
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hi,

I have a question about using patch v2.5 (under bash 1.14.7 with djgpp
2.03 and MS-DOS 5.0).

I have a large patch file for a set of programs that is intended to
upgrade the files from v2.06 to v2.08.  The patch file contains many
patches, not all for the same files.

Suppose I want to update a single file.  My experience suggests that
patch cannot extract the relevant patch(es) from the larger patchfile
and apply them; instead I must copy the relevant patches to another
patchfile, specific to the program to be patched, and then apply that
(program-specific) patchfile.

Is this correct? Or can patch update individual files *without* my
needing to extract the patches individually?

TIA,
jtw