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From: "George Foot" <george DOT foot AT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
To: Bjorn De Meyer <bgdmeyer AT eduserv2 DOT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 02:25:19 +0000
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Subject: Re: Problem patching ALLEGRO 3.0 to WIP May30. (Patch Bug?)
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On  1 Oct 98 at 13:30, Bjorn De Meyer wrote:

> I have tried to patch the Allegro 3.0 with the Wip of May 30
> diff file. For that, I first unzip the alleg30.zip into my allegro
> directory overwriting all, then I unzip difmay30.zip, also overwriting
> all, but when I run:
> 
> patch -p1 < difmay30.diff I get a lot of error messages, my temp
> directory, wich is a virtul disk created using VDISK
> gets filled with junk files, and nothing happens to the files in the
> Allegro directory, they are not patched.
> I redirected to output, and stripped it from the
> hunk #<number> succeeded, by using the --silent switch.
> At the ending of this post I have put the long error report for you to
> look into. I am running a 100 MHZ Pentium under Caldara Opendos, though
> I'm going to install Caldara DR-Dos today or tomorrow. My other
> DJGPP programs work fine. I am using patch v 2.1 

Is that GNU patch?  Type "patch -v" to find out.  In any case,
have you tried upgrading to GNU patch v2.5?  It's in
"pat25b.zip", in the "v2gnu" directory of the djgpp
distribution, e.g. FTP from ftp.simtel.net, directory
"/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu", file "pat25b.zip".

> This is what I get when I redirect the stderr:
> 
> Can't backup allegro/ChangeLog, output is in E:\TEMP/patcho020246: path
> not found
[snip]

I've never seen any output remotely like that from GNU patch.  
To me it looks like some DOS-like patch program which doesn't 
understand forward slashes or perhaps long filenames.

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