On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:13:41 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> > well I'll be dipped! so _thats_ how patch works!! I've been wondering > > about that for the longest time but just never got around to figuring it > > out. That's awesome! > > Yeah at first it got me as well - but it's important to be in the right > place and understand the diff (pun) between -p0 and -p1 etc. > > FWIW I had a dream last night in that I was watching a windows system > do a patch - it would exec a few lines, stop, have the HD shudder, > sit for a while, exec a few more lines, etc. :) > > One of my early experiences in Linux was just being awestruck when > doing a patch (and that was on a reaal old system by today's > standards) and having the lines just fly so fast on the screen you > couldn't see what was going on. I mean, this thing has to do _some_ file > manipulation, right? :) > > And who said penguins can't fly! -- daRcmaTTeR --------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux User 182496 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:05am up 4 days, 1:41, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.15, 0.22
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