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Ken Brown wrote:
> I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar behavior to what Angelo and Robert reported, but it doesn't happen if I export TMPDIR=/tmp before running patch.

Indeed!

On my system TMPDIR isn't defined by default; instead TMP and TEMP point 
to $USERPROFILE/Temp. Setting TMP or TMPDIR to /tmp, works. Instead 
pointing TEMP to /tmp does not, i.e. 'patch' creates foo.txt with '+'.


Ciao,
Angelo.

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