Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <001301c32a1e$d4e66400$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Constantine" Cc: References: <3EDC3908.8000805@rbcmail.ru> <3EDD175B.2080809@rbcmail.ru> <009801c32a19$f094d2e0$78d96f83@pomello> <3EDD1A9F.8030401@rbcmail.ru> Subject: Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given? Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:24:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Cam-ScannerAdmin: mail-scanner-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk X-Cam-AntiVirus: Not scanned X-Cam-SpamDetails: >>>> / Constantine wrote: >>>>> I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the >>>>> patch(1) utility, I am always being asked to type in the file name to >>>>> a file that needs to be patched. > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Perhaps your patch file is corrupt. >> Please post the first 10 lines of it. Constantine wrote: > --- start --- > diff -b -B --exclude='*.*htm*' -r en-US/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf > en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf > 7c7 > < > --- > > > 11c11 > < > --- > > > --- end --- Ah. No wonder it isn't working. "Normal" diffs don't store any filename information. Use diff -u or diff -c. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/