How to patch?

[Vick Khera]

In article <JC.91Mar7095321 at raven.bu.edu> jc at raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes:

   >>>>> On 7 Mar 91 10:38:51 GMT, kleinj at jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Justin the Blue) said:

   JB>   We are a group of people who are learning how to compile utilities for
   JB>   general system use.  One of the things we are unfamiliar with is how to
   JB>   implement patches.  There are many things that we want to do, however,
   JB>   that involve patches.

   Now, this method seems to be to save Bandwith but makes life for the
   rest of us...(if I am correct about most patches).  

   Anyone care to futher explain it or perhaps correct anything I might
   have said incorrectly??

   JC

there is a program called patch which will read the output of diff,
and apply them to the source files.  works very well, and makes life
easy for the rest of us.

patch can be found at various archive sites, including
prep.ai.mit.edu and jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov.
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