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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r311109 - head/usr.bin/patch
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 08:52:03AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
> I'm also trying to picture the real-world need to diff and patch lines
> of ascii text longer than 64K, but for every problem out there, there
> is someone with a perverse need to solve that problem outside of the
> normal lines we all live between.

Patches for the generated Makefiles of wxGTK in pkgsrc have been the
reasons why we moved to our own version of patch on all non-NetBSD
platforms.

Joerg