Uh, well. . .as one of your coders, Jeff. . . Winzip 6.1 works great to extract tar and gzip/gunzip files, though I haven't used it to create them. The gnu_diff works well for me, I just change to the mud directory and diff src master~1 > patch.txt. Don't have an answer on patching, though. Visual diff/merge only does a single file at a time, as I can see. I'll let ya know if I can find anything out there. :-) Oh! the only problem I see with gnu diff on a Win95 box is that it doesn't support long filenames. But, that's easy enough to edit by hand. :-) See ya on! Seth ---------- > From: Jeffrey D. Frey, Jr. <freyj@k2.iserv.net> > To: circle@pvv.ntnu.no > Subject: MSVC++/Diffs and patching > Date: Tuesday, July 09, 1996 6:48 PM > > > Well, I have recently switched over to using MS-Visual C++ and I'm > quite happy with the results. It is not as quick as my FreeBSD > system, but now I don't have to have the extra partition and I don't > have to continually switch OS's for everything I do. > > Anyways, my coders and I have been using a patching system that has > seemed to work quite well. Everyone has a master_src and a src > directory. They make their changes to src and produce a diff file > from the master_src. They then send that to me. From everyone's > patches I make a master patch that gets sent to everyone to apply to > their master_src directories and then copy over to src. This makes > it so we don't have to continually be sending the whole source trees > to my coders and we don't have to code on the system that the mud is > running on. > > As you can see, we use diff, and patch quite a bit. I downloaded the > win-32 gnu files for these but they are terrible. I could not get > them to work for the full directories, just specific files. If > anyone has any suggestions on how we can continue to use this sytem > and produce good unified diff files (not all my coders are using > MSVC++), I would really appreciate it. Also, if you know of any good > tar and gzip/gunzip utils that will work with 32 long filenames I > would appreciate that too. > > Thanks, > Jeff > Endrea@zombie.iglou.com 2150 >
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