news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) (05/23/90)
In article <XGI3L.1@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Think of what an automatic archiver will do with the following... > >> Subject: v07i042: VGA X11 Server, Part00/08 >> Message-ID: <135716@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> >> >> Archive-name: vga > >> Subject: v07i043: VGA X11 Server, Part01/08 >> Message-ID: <135717@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> >> >> Archive-name: vga/part01 > >Here we have a conflict: if you archive the first part first (part00), >the rest will fail because you can't mkdir() on top of a file. > >Oops. Yeah, big oops ;-). Another problem I had here, and which probably was mentioned before I saw this thread. My diffs all unshared with the WRONG SIZE!!! It caused the diffs to be a real pain in the neck to apply. Did someone between here and there modify the files somehow?? brian
pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) (05/26/90)
news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) writes: >Yeah, big oops ;-). Another problem I had here, and which probably was >mentioned before I saw this thread. My diffs all unshared with the >WRONG SIZE!!! It caused the diffs to be a real pain in the neck to >apply. Did someone between here and there modify the files somehow?? There has been some serious munging with tabs and spaces. Use 'patch -l' to prevent patch rejects. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837