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- Patch Kit, Version 2.0
-
- Copyright (c) 1988, Larry Wall
-
- You may copy the patch kit in whole or in part as long as you don't try to
- make money off it, or pretend that you wrote it.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and
- then follow them carefully. Failure to do so may void your warranty. :-)
-
- After you have unpacked your kit, you should have all the files listed
- in MANIFEST.
-
- Installation
-
- 1) Run Configure. This will figure out various things about your system.
- Some things Configure will figure out for itself, other things it will
- ask you about. It will then proceed to make config.h, config.sh, and
- Makefile.
-
- You might possibly have to trim # comments from the front of Configure
- if your sh doesn't handle them, but all other # comments will be taken
- care of.
-
- If you don't have sh, you'll have to rip the prototype of config.h out
- of Configure and generate the defines by hand.
-
- 2) Glance through config.h to make sure system dependencies are correct.
- Most of them should have been taken care of by running the Configure script.
-
- If you have any additional changes to make to the C definitions, they
- can be done in the Makefile, or in config.h. Bear in mind that they may
- get undone next time you run Configure.
-
- 3) make
-
- This will attempt to make patch in the current directory.
-
- 4) make install
-
- This will put patch into a public directory (normally /usr/local/bin).
- It will also try to put the man pages in a reasonable place. It will not
- nroff the man page, however.
-
- 5) Read the manual entry before running patch.
-
- 6) IMPORTANT! Help save the world! Communicate any problems and
- suggested patches to me, lwall@jpl-devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Larry Wall),
- so we can keep the world in sync. If you have a problem, there's
- someone else out there who either has had or will have the same problem.
-
- If possible, send in patches such that the patch program will apply them.
- Context diffs are the best, then normal diffs. Don't send ed scripts--
- I've probably changed my copy since the version you have.
-
- Watch for patch patches in net.sources.bugs. Patches will generally be
- in a form usable by the patch program. If you are just now bringing up
- patch and aren't sure how many patches there are, write to me and I'll
- send any you don't have. Your current patch level is shown in patchlevel.h.
-
-
- NEW FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE
-
- (Correct) support for 4.3bsd-style context diffs.
- Files can be created from scratch.
- You can specify a fuzz-factor for context matching.
- You can force patch to ask no questions.
- You can specify how much of the leading pathname to strip off filenames.
- Uses a Configure script for greater portability.
- You are now asked if you want to apply a reversed patch.
- No limit (apart from memory) on the size of hunks.
-