On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Edward J Glamkowski wrote:
>It is also really easy to ignore the shell script and just patch the .diff
>file anyway. What you would have to do is write a shell script that IS
>the patch. Which is to say, generate a .diff file, put it into the script
>in such a way that it writes the patch file upon executing the script
>(much like the configure script writes C programs to test for various
>things), patches the file and then deletes the patch. (and then adds your
>name to the credit file.)
Linux has GNU shar which will do it for you(*). Only cavet is that it
won't work in Windows, excluding the GNU-WIN32 type thing.
(*) - Well, if you edit the script to do the cat'ing after you make it.
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