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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 08:37:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU utilities are old.
Message-ID:  <199705131337.IAA01404@zuhause.mn.org>
In-Reply-To: <19970513073227.43390@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <3377CBF7.120C@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970513073227.43390@keltia.freenix.fr>

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Ollivier Robert writes:
 > > patch-2.2
 > 
 > There is a big change in it so beware... It doesn't create .orig by
 > default. I don't think it is a good change IMO.

I recently had problems running FreeBSD's patch on some perl 5
patches.  It kept placing newly created files in the top level
directory instead of the directory in which they belonged.  GNU patch
2.2 worked fine.  


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