Re: Help with patch for signalmodule

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Wed, 11 May 1994 21:45:37 +0200

> I have worked with many flavors of patch on many different platforms.
> When you say "patch" just what are you saying. Can you give me just
> a little more information so that I may add this awsome new builtin
> feature to my python1.0.2 binarys.

There's a very well-known utility by the name of "patch" written by
Larry Wall. It can process the "diff -c" style patches thet Lance
posted, as well as most other diff formats produced by various
variants of UNIX diff (I don't expect it will handle non-UNIX diff
formats unless these were designed to be compatible with UNIX diff).

Patch is available from many ftp sites and even distributed with some
OS versions. I'm pretty sure that all the ftp sites carrying Python
(with the exception of ftp.cwi.nl) carry a version of patch.

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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