From: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Diff and Patch on v7
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:03:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sf7adz3.fsf@vuxu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2881fc6-29df-7e28-b0ca-ec34745b57e2@gmail.com> (Will Senn's message of "Sat, 25 Jul 2020 08:52:18 -0500")
Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> writes:
> I got a diff for adding actual backspace and delete to v7, linked off
> of gunkies... Anyhow, I can manually edit the referenced files and
> rebuild, but I would rather do it canonically. I don't see patch
> anywhere, so did v7 users use diffs to patch source and if so what's
> the magic?
patch(1) was written by Larry Wall in 1985, and released over Usenet.
v7 users likely used diff -e, and piped to ed to apply it.
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Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> https://leahneukirchen.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-25 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-25 13:52 Will Senn
2020-07-25 14:03 ` Leah Neukirchen [this message]
2020-07-25 14:28 ` Will Senn
2020-07-25 14:39 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25 15:19 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-25 15:45 ` Richard Salz
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