Paul McNett wrote:
> johnf wrote:
>> On Friday 29 June 2007 07:45, Carl Karsten wrote:
>>> johnf wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I guess I'm dumb because I don't know how to use a patch file that others
>>>> have posted to tracker. Could someone provide the steps to get the patch
>>>> into my code for testing.
>>> generally, cd into the dir that contains the file to be patched, the run
>>> patch foo.patch.
>>>
>>> but often I have to fumble. what patch and I'll fumble till I get it, then
>>> post my steps? what OS?
>>>
>>> Carl K
>> Well Larry is on Windows and I'm on both Linux and windows (but I use mostly
>> Linux for Dabo).
>
> For Windows, seriously consider installing CygWin, which brings lots of
> the commandline options and applications that you use on Linux...
>
I ran CygWin for a while. it works as advertised, but personally, if you are
going to consider CygWin, also consider a 2nd box running Linux. keep a cheap
15" monitor hooked up to it but turned off most of the time. Use putty.exe to
connect to it and use it. I did that for years.
patch.exe is in http://unxutils.sourceforge.net - that will be the easy way to
solve the patch problem.
Carl K
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