jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jeremy Teitelbaum) (12/01/88)
Dear Gnus of the world, Corrections to programs on the net are generally posted in a special format with *** and ---, which I have seen referred to as "context diffs." Forgive my naivete, but: 1. How are these produced? 2. Is there an automatic procedure for incorporating changes described in this way into files? Thanks for your help. -- Jeremy Teitelbaum Math Dept. U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. teitelbaum@ub.cc.umich.edu OR jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (12/01/88)
In article <499@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jeremy Teitelbaum) writes: >1. How are these [context diffs] produced? Usually with `diff -rc2`. >2. Is there an automatic procedure for incorporating changes >described in this way into files? Use Larry Wall's patch(1), available via anonymous FTP from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu or via uucp from osu-cis, as well as from a lot of other places.