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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: patch.exe crashed on cygwin-1.3.15-2 (ATTN: cygwin patch maintainer!)
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:22:44 -0000
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:43:55AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> And, then there's the fact that the patch file that you just
>> uploaded is exactly the same size as the previous one...
>
> Am I up too early this morning?!?  I checked it on my local copy and
> it was in fact gzip'd:
>
> $ ls -l patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r--    1 corinna  users      144570 Feb 20  2002
> patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2
>
> So I converted it to bzip'd:
>
> $ ls -l patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r--    1 corinna  root       118074 Nov  9 07:56
> patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2
>
> and uploaded it to cygwin.com.  Hmm, probably somebody already
> converted it on cygwin.com months ago...

Yes, that makes sense. I've been transferring my Cygwin package cache from
machine to machine with me since I started using Cygwin. So its quite
possible that the patch src I have was downloaded as early as 2000.

Max.


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