On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Erik Jakobsen wrote about, Re: Works.:
> > The reason it does not work properly is because the patch file is not made
> > in a conventional way, the directory name is different to yours, this is
> > why patch has the -p option.
>
> Ok.
>
> > You are in /usr/src/ and using -p0 do;
> > cd linux
>
> Did it.
>
> > gzip -dc /tmp/kctt/patch/kct0_02-2.2.13-patch.diff.gz | patch -p1 -s
> >
> > The -p strips off the amount of "/" given in this case it will interpret the
> > command as
> > Documentation/Configure.help
> >
> > > --------------------------
> > > File to patch:
> > linux/Documentation/Configure.help
>
> Ok now I understand a bit more as I give it a try short after the reply
> arrived here.
>
>
> > But you would need to type "every path, fully for every file to patch".
>
> I did it, but still having errors.
Then either there is somethig wrong in the source code (ie changes) or you
are not doing it correctly.
What are the errors, and what command (syntax) did you use.
>
> Thanks, and I'll try further as I now understand a bit more :-)
>
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> Erik Jakobsen - OZ4KK - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> SuSE Linux 6.3
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