Kuan Chen wrote: > > pardon my stupidity.. but can someone enlighten me as to what the "!" preceding > lines in a patch file mean? thanks > > kuan > > > >> I can do the !, +, - patch thing but this one is a little different, > >> here is part of it: > > It took a little while for me to figure it out, with help... But it works like this: *** XXXX, XXXX **** ! CODE1 ! CODE1 ! CODE1 --- XXXX, XXXX ---- !CODE2 !CODE2 !CODE2 ******************** So you will sing code segment 1 and then replace each marked line with code segment 2 which is below the --- XXXX, XXXX ---- line. Let me know if you don't quite understand. Shaw +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | | Or send 'info circle' to majordomo@cspo.queensu.ca | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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