%% Regarding FVWM: FVWM - patching;
%% D.Kennedy_at_Queens-Belfast.AC.UK (David Kennedy) writes:
dk> More specifically, what program (called patch I presume) do I
dk> need, where may I get a copy (UK/Europe preferred), and how
dk> should I go about using it?
Larry Wall's patch program is fantastic; no site should be without it.
It's now distributed by the GNU folks, so look in:
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/patch-2.1.tar.gz
(or its mirrors). Like almost all GNU software, it's trivial to build:
$ <unzip, untar, cd to directory>
$ ./configure
$ make intall
Bam. Check out the INSTALL file for details.
Then, save your email or whatever containing the patch to a file and
send it to patch via stdin:
$ patch < patchfile
Or, if you emailer supports piping messages to commands, you can invoke
it directly from there.
Patch is smart enough to ignore all "non-patch" text, like email
headers, comments by the author, etc. I've never had to trim out any
junk (including .sigs) from a patch before using it.
Check out the man pages, they're very informative. Have fun!
PS. To make a patch, just run diff (preferably "diff -c" or "diff -u")
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Received on Fri Mar 01 1996 - 10:03:55 GMT