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Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 12:35:46 -0400
From: Vinnie Shelton  <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>

    >> 1.  WARNING - I tried patching up using patch-2.3, which I had just
    >> built using the usual optimization settings.  It seems to just
    >> patch one file and then exit!  I reinstalled patch-2.1 (which
    >> won't build out of the box because it defines basename, which
    >> conflicts with libc), then the patch went fine.  It looks to me
    >> that patch-2.3 fails to meet the minimum requirements of a program 
    >> that calls itself "patch".

Patch 2.3 has a problem reading from a pipe.  It will only patch one file 
and exit, as Neal observed.  It's supposed to work if it's not reading from 
a pipe, however.  2.3.5 is available on alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu.

vin

