On 7/23/2012 9:52 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
I did read the documentation, and obviously I'm still posting here because that didn't help. Everyone is pretty rude on this list...
sorry to give you such impression. Please find here some basic instruction to understand the matter http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/introduction-using-diff-and-patch-tutorial
Feeding the file in from stdin like this does work, however the documentation makes it seem like I can pass the file name in directly and it will open it and read its contents. I guess not - it has misleading documentation.
the documentation is not cygwin specific, linux one is identical. Feel free to complain upstream and propose alternative documentation. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
