On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, J. Seth Henry wrote:

> > Ok, I used the old patch against the new 0.61.1 source, but I had to patch
> it by hand (fortunately, it was rather easy). I don't mind releasing a
> patch, but I don't know how to create it. I realize this isn't a blackbox
> question, but how do I go about creating the difference file (patch) from
> the modified source and the original source? Using 'diff' produces
> something vastly different from what the patch looks like.
>
> Thanks,
> Seth Henry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Diff is the command to use as follows:

diff -urN blackbox-0.61.1 blackbox-patched-0.61.1

Just make sure that both directories are 'clean' (that is no configuring, 
making, etc.) so that unwanted files are not included.

Just using this myself to make a couple patches...

Dan

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