Re: patch.exe

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Robert McCrea wrote:

> I can't seem to patch on Win2000.  It does work normally if I export the
> results to a single file, but that is very cumbersome to split into the
> individual files.  Any help?

Judging by the error messages, you are using the DJGPP port of Patch 
version 2.5.  This is not the latest port; you can find a port of version 
2.5.3 here:

  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/pat253b.zip

I tried this version on an NT 4 system, and it worked for me.  I don't 
have access to Windows 2000.

One difference between W2K and NT 4 is that the long file name API used 
by DJGPP programs to access long file names is not available on NT 
versions before W2K.  So it is possible that the special functions used 
to rename files given their long names don't work on W2K.  You can try 
forcing Patch to use the legacy short file-name functions by setting 
LFN=n in the environment before running Patch, and see if that helps.