On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:11:21 +0300
Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Larry Wall applies a patch manually quicker than GNU patch.
> 
> GNU patch is actually a distributed version of Larry Wall:
> 
> $ patch -v
> patch 2.6
> Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall
> Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> written by Larry Wall and Paul Eggert
> 

Yes, GNU patch is based on the original patch by Larry Wall (but it has
evolved a lot since then.). See:

http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32866

(The comment reading "Suggested Revision".)

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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