From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 6 18:43:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23417 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 18:43:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23336 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 18:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 109K9q-0002Hj-00; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 02:41:15 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id CAA00694; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 02:40:43 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21139; Sun, 7 Feb 99 02:40:42 GMT Message-Id: <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:39:34 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Mark Ovens writes: > > I've made a small enhancement to csh(1) and want to submit it. Reading > > the handbook it says to include patches in the PR (in the FIX section). > > What is the best way to do this? Copying and pasting into the browser > > will trash TABs, converting them to spaces, so the patch won't work, > > unless it's applied with the ``-l'' option. > > The browser? What browser? Use send-pr and your editor's "include > file" command (:r filename in vi, C-x i filename in Emacs) > Ah, come on, give me a break, this is the first time I've done this. I said I'm going to have to do it on-line on the Website, which means using a browser. I know how to include a file in vi, but doesn't send-pr use sendmail? which I haven't got installed. My only concern is that if I enter the diffs by copying & pasting then the TABS will be converted to spaces so the patches won't work (without the ``-l'' option). > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no -- Q. How many Software Engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A. None. It's a hardware problem FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message