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Re: LYNX-DEV reconstructiong old versions


From: Doug Kaufman
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV reconstructiong old versions
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 19:30:43 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Laura Eaves wrote:

> This may be a dumb question but is there a tool that will
> take a diff file and a base file and produce an updated file?

This is called "patch".  The syntax is "patch -pn <diff_file", where
the "n" in "-pn" is an integer indicating the number of levels of path
to ignore.  Look at the manual for options regarding backups and level
of verbosity of messages.
                             Doug
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