Ryan, 

I hope you've got this issue solved... if not, send me the patch and I
can apply it for you..

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 08:17, Height, Jason wrote:
> Ryan,
> 
> Well I use cygwin which provides the unix patch, cvs etc utilites for
> windows to do the work. But there may be easier ways (I don't know)
> 
> However here is a rough instruction:
> 
> Start a cygwin bash shell
> 
> cd <jakarta-poi-root>
> patch -p0 < mypatchfile.diff
> 
> This assumes that the diff was performed beneath the Jakarta poi root
> directory, it may be one level up or several levels down in the source tree,
> you should be able to have a look at the diff file to work it out. The -p
> parameter means ignore this many levels of directory structure in the patch
> file. In our case when the directories match it is zero. 
> 
> If you are lucky the patch was applied without any rejects!!
> 
> Then use cvs to upload the new code which I assume you already know how to
> do
> 
> Let me know if you come to grief.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Ackley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, 5 March 2004 1:01 PM
> To: POI Developers List
> Subject: Received a patch file
> 
> Err...now what do I do? How do I apply a patch to cvs? FYI, I use Windows.
> 
> -Ryan
> 
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