On Mon, 08 Jun 1998, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
>Hello:
>
>First, let me apologize for the off topic post. I've been playing around
>with gcc on my system, and monitoring the kernel mailing list. There are
>lots of emails posted with "diffs" and "patches". I would like to learn
There's a really really neat :) program called 'patch' which will take
one of those diffs and do what the lines say:
+ means add this line
- means take away this line
and apply the diff, or patch, file against the original source file, and
come up with a new version.
The changes are generated by the diff program, which is why they're
called diffs. diff takes an original source and an edited source and
creates a file of changes necessary to turn the original source into
the edited source.
>- Mike
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