On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:38:14AM -0500, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Patrick Robinson wrote:
> > > > > ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.5/hop_count.0
> > > >
> > > > Is this patch format specific to a particular patch program? The
> > > > "patch" which is part of my Solaris 2.6 system complains:
>
> I think the Solaris patch program is buggy when it comes to parsing
> unified diffs. The patch itself on ftp.ccsf.org is fine - it doesn't
> have mangled tabs or anything like that. It's a simple enough patch
> that you can just apply the change by hand quickly, though, so that's
> the easy fix.
Heh, heh... yeah, that's an excellent point. :-)
> However, most patches in the archives are unified diffs, so if you want
> to get a working patch utility that can handle them all, I suggest you
> get and install GNU patch.
Will do. Thanks to both you and Geoff for the help!
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Patrick Robinson
AHNR Info Technology, Virginia Tech
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