Re: lynx-dev Using lynx as a filter

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Miroslaw J. Wiechowski wrote:

> Message from Thomas Dickey [15:53 03/09/01]:
> >On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Miroslaw J. Wiechowski wrote:
> >> Message from Thomas Dickey at 01-09-03 02:44 PM:
> >>
> >> >that's probably lynx 2.8.3 (fixed that bug shortly after release).
> >> >
> >> >The current version of lynx is 2.8.4
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes! That's was exactly the reason.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for your help.
> >
> >no problem (don't forget to apply the post-release bugfixes for 2.8.4 also).
>
> Sorry for stupid question... how do I do it?
> I have no experience with the patch program...

a patch is the output of the 'diff' program.  the 'patch' program uses
that as a script, to apply editing changes to the related files.  I
would apply a patch using GNU patch 2.5, for example:

        a) all of the patches I generate for lynx (and other programs) are
           done by running diff on the new/old top-level directories.
           For example:
                diff -u -r lynx2.8.4rel.1 lynx2.8.4rel.1a >foo
        b) patch has an option to ignore a given number of directory
           levels (-p).
        c) the simplest way to apply a patch is to cd to the top-level
           directory and use the -p option to ignore one level,
                cd lynx2.8.4rel.1
                patch -p1 <foo

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