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From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: GNU utilities are old.
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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.