bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell) (08/07/89)
Trying to apply Peter Housel's recent cdiff to sed.c, I had patch run out of /tmp space. I keep my RAM disk pretty clean, but even an empty RAM disk is pretty tight. No sweat, I think. I'll just hack patch.c to find scratch space someplace else. Should have known better. Can't find patch.c in the archived command sources which came with my PH 1.3 distribution. I mounted a floppy on /tmp, and that gave me enough /tmp space to update sed. Now I'm wondering why I don't have patch.c. Anybody know why patch.c is not in the PH distribution? Anybody know where I can find a copy?
ncoverby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) (08/11/89)
In article <9189@chinet.chi.il.us> bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell) writes: >Anybody know why patch.c is not in the PH distribution? >Anybody know where I can find a copy? The source code to patch is quite large, and there was not enough space for it on a 9-diskette set, even when everything was compressed. Andy wanted to keep the distribution to 9 diskettes for price reasons (the more disks, the more bucks). You can get patch from several Internet sites, and there is a patch (I believe with binary) specifically for Minix on vm1.nodak.edu aka ndsuvm1 on Bitnet. See the Minix Information Sheet for details on requesting the files. -- Glen Overby <ncoverby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet)
gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) (08/18/89)
In article <1989Aug11.053855.401@plains.NoDak.edu> ncoverby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) writes: >In article <9189@chinet.chi.il.us> bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell) writes: >>Anybody know why patch.c is not in the PH distribution? > >The source code to patch is quite large, and there was not enough space for >it on a 9-diskette set, even when everything was compressed. >-- > Glen Overby <ncoverby@plains.nodak.edu> > uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet) On the distribution of MINIX-ST there is a program called fix. It serves the same purpose. Does somebody know if it is realy the same as patch? (just curious). +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | The smoker you drink,| Gert Kanis, SWP | | the W.C. | Nixdorf Computer BV, Postbus 29 | |----------------------| 4130 EA Vianen, Netherlands. | | I do not represent | E-mail : targon!gert@nluug.nl | | anyone elses opinion.| or ..!mcvax!hp4nl!targon!gert | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) (08/19/89)
In article <599@targon.UUCP> gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) writes: >On the distribution of MINIX-ST there is a program called fix. >It serves the same purpose [as patch]. Does somebody know if it is realy the >same as patch? (just curious). Fix is NOT close to patch in complexity (or size). Fix takes "normal" diffs and rather blindly applys them. Patch, on the other hand, works best with context diffs, and can cope with limited (simple) changes in the file having the patches applied to it. -- Glen Overby <ncoverby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet)