applying a patch

[Steven Levine]

In <1204013008.17319.4.camel at localhost>, on 02/26/08
   at 09:03 AM, Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> said:

Hi,

>To apply it, you need the "patch" command, which takes the "patch" file
>and applies the changes described in it to the verious 'old' files you
>have. 

>I don't know if OS/2 has a patch command.

Gnu patch is available for OS/2.  It can be found on hobbes as
gnupatch.zip.

OS/2 ships with a patch.exe, so one needs to take measures to ensure that
the correct patch.exe is invoked.  I rename patch.exe to gnupatch.exe.

To apply a patch, it is usually sufficient to run

 gnupatch -p0 <patchfile

from the top level Octave install directory.  If the Octave install is
sufficiently non-standard the -p level may need to be higher.  Dushan
should review a couple of the path tutorials available on the net.

Steven

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