From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-12-21T04:54:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7788] Re: strange border-case Numeric errors

Hugh Sasse wrote:

# On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
# 
# > Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@tin.it> writes:
# > > How to apply this patch to the existing code? (Linux OS and 
FreeBSD).
# > 
#                [...]
# >      patch <mailbody
# > 
# >    where mailbody is the file containing the body of the mail
# > 
# >    You should see something like
# > 
# >       dave[ruby/ruby 8:09:51] patch <~/tmp/p1
# >       patching file bignum.c
# 
# Note for those on other platforms:  Some versions of patch don't 
# understand this type of diff output.  If that applies to yours then
# you need to use GNU patch.   [I had that problem on Soaris 2.5.1 for
# example.]

Soaris --> Solaris?

Ditto for AIX. 

!! faq candidate ????

(Maybe with inverse instructions for diff -c.)

Conrad Schneiker
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