3-Dec-2002 13:12 Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Can you please download the dev.11 source, unmodified, and apply your
>> changes to it without completely changing the file format?  Send a patch
>> that actually applies to the distribution?  (I can't believe Tom puts up
>> with this day in and day out, as maintainer...)
>>
>> (I tried expanding the tabs in GridText.c first, but the patch was still
>> completely rejected, 7 out of 7 hunks failed.)
>>
>> I wonder if the mailing list did it.  Here is a TAB: did it come
>> through unmodified?

Sorry for inconvenience, I haven't thought my patches so heavy to apply.
It seems my mailer expands tabs to spaces etc.  try  patch -u -l
Will think about uploading to a web server.
Patches were sent against clean dev.11
Another problem may come from lowercased filenames and paths...

> LP's patches come with tabs expanded to spaces, a trailing blank on each
> line and one leading blank removed.  It would be nice if they were
> simpler to apply, but since his changes are generally good, I do take
> the time to clean the diff's up and apply them.  (I do this by tweaking
> the filenames to match, using diffstat and "patch -l --dry-run" to see
> when I've got those consistent, and then diff'ing the new/original files
> to iron out the whitespace).

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