Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:57:49 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR's and patches Message-ID: <20000510005749.A99436@Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000509234322.A18368@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:43:22PM -0500 References: <v04210106b53e6378dac8@[128.113.24.47]> <20000509234322.A18368@dan.emsphone.com>
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> In the last episode (May 09), Garance A Drosihn said: > > > > I used 'lynx' to download the PR, and it seemed to come down > > correctly (tab-characters where I'd expect them, etc), but the patch Use `w3m -dump http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=#### | patch`. It will correctly download the file for you. Lynx just makes a mess of the thing no matter what you try to do. The patch(1) is smart enough to realize that the patch is indented by four spaces and smart enough to realize that some of the text is not part of the patch. -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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