hrothgar@RSCH.OCLC.ORG (Roger H. Thompson) (09/28/90)
I'm trying to bring our version of GNU emacs, 18.52, up to the latest version, 18.55, by using diff files. info-gnu-request indicated that there is a patch program by Larry Wall located in the archives of comp.sources.unix. How can i get this? ftp? email? and are there instructions ? Roger Thompson Head, Information Retrieval Research Lab Office of Research US MAIL: MC-410 OCLC, Online Computer Library Center 6565 Frantz Road Dublin, OH 43017-0702 DESK: 614-761-5023 FAX: 614-764-6096 INTERNET: hrothgar@rsch.oclc.org
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (10/04/90)
>>>>> In article <9009281519.AA04073@poseidon.rsch.oclc.org>, >>>>> hrothgar@RSCH.OCLC.ORG (Roger H. Thompson) (RHT) writes: RHT> there is a patch program by Larry Wall located in the archives of RHT> comp.sources.unix. How can i get this? ftp? email? and are there RHT> instructions ? How to get patch-2.0.tar.Z from the archive at Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University: NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu. Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET usually works. by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between about 20.00 and 0900 UTC). ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] user name: anonymous or ftp password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu) cd /pub don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive, compressed or in any other way contains binary data. get UNIX/patch-2.0.tar.Z by mail-server: send the following message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf): begin path john@highbrow.edu send UNIX/patch-2.0.tar.Z end The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you first issue the request: send HELP -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')