problems patching trn

[Rob Boldbear]

In article <1990Dec17.070057.29084 at zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian at zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>When I unpacked the trn distribution with the two reposted parts, and
>tried to use the incredibly nonstandard patch procedure and patch1
>included with it, the patch died looking for a file whose name started
>"mthread"; there was indeed no such file in the distribution, (at least
>as it unpacked for me), yet a grep through the posted articles showed it
>mentioned too many places to filter through and find out what was wrong.

The problem was, I am told, that the so-called "repost" of part 9 was
not a true repost as it included only those files that got munged in
the original part 9. You needed to have both part 9's. I learned
this well after I ditched the original part 9 for the repost. :-(
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