From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-12-22T04:36:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7903] Re: strange border-case Numeric errors

Hugh Sasse wrote:

# On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Conrad Schneiker wrote:
# 
# > Hugh Sasse wrote:
# > 
#                [...]
# > # 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?
# 
# Yes. "[That] note is...subject to improvement...". :-)
# > 
# > Ditto for AIX. 
# > 
# > !! faq candidate ????
# > 
# > (Maybe with inverse instructions for diff -c.)
# 
# GNU patch can cope with old style diffs, so I'm not sure about the
# "inverse" there.  You could say that Larry Wall recommends GNU patch
# now:
# http://kiev.wall.org/~larry/

Oops. 

Forget the diff -c. What I was ineptly trying to say by "inverse" was that 
it would be useful to tell people how to *create* (as opposed to use) a 
patch file if they want to post a change (i.e. what flags to use when 
running diff, and what order to specify <old_file> and <new_file>). 

Conrad Schneiker
(This note is unofficial and subject to improvement without notice.)