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Skip Montanaro <skip@automatrix.com> writes:

Steve> GNU Patch is the preferred
Steve> patching program, and Patch-2.4 seems O.K., Patch-2.3 is deadly.

> Patch 2.1 seemed to work okay.  Did I possibly miss something?

A lot of history.

Various flavors of 2.1 are O.K.  There have been reported problems
with older versions of patch and patches bundled with some systems.

