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- This version of `patch' has many changes made by the Free Software Foundation.
- They add support for:
- * handling arbitrary binary data and large files
- * the unified context diff format that GNU diff can produce
- * making GNU Emacs-style backup files
- * improved interaction with RCS and SCCS
- * the GNU conventions for option parsing and configuring and compilation.
- * better POSIX compliance
- They also fix some bugs. See the NEWS and ChangeLog files for details.
-
- Tutorial-style documentation for patch is included in the GNU
- Diffutils package; get GNU Diffutils 2.8 or later for up-to-date
- documentation for patch.
-
- For GNU and Unix build and installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
- Use `configure --disable-largefile' to disable large file support;
- this is reportedly necessary on Red Hat GNU/Linux 6.0 to avoid a C library bug.
- For MS-DOS using DJGPP tools, see the file pc/djgpp/README.
- For other systems, copy config.hin to config.h and change
- #undef statements in it to #define as appropriate for your system,
- and copy Makefile.in to Makefile and set the variables that are
- enclosed in @ signs as appropriate for your system.
-
- Please send bug reports for this version of patch to
- <bug-patch@gnu.org>.
-
- The Free Software Foundation is distributing this version of patch
- independently because as of this writing, Larry Wall has not released a
- new version of patch since mid-1988. We have heard that he has been
- too busy working on other things, like Perl. He has graciously agreed
- to let GNU `patch' be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
- Public License.
-
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-
- Copyright (C) 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall
-
- Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2002 Free
- Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this file; see the file COPYING.
- If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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