rn 4.3 patch #29

brown at nicmad.UUCP brown at nicmad.UUCP
Sun Aug 3 07:40:19 AEST 1986


In article <349 at epimass.UUCP> jbuck at epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <316 at comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen at comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>>This patch fails because all the tabs have been converted to spaces. 
>
>The patch program has a -l (for "loose" ?) flag that considers all
>sequences of white space to be the same.  Try "patch -l" to apply
>this patch.

Thanks for the info.  The -l option worked just great.  As they say,
when all else fails: RTFM.
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