From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 9 21:58:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts2.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A5437B863 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 21:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca ([206.172.130.71]) by tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20000510045754.IMPO1435.tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net@Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca>; Wed, 10 May 2000 00:57:54 -0400 Received: (from tim@localhost) by Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA99547; Wed, 10 May 2000 00:57:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:57:49 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Dan Nelson Cc: Garance A Drosihn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR's and patches Message-ID: <20000510005749.A99436@Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca> References: <20000509234322.A18368@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <20000509234322.A18368@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:43:22PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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