Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Match selected from packet list (2)

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From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:11:54 +1100
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:50:00AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:22:14AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I tried out your patch. Firstly I had problems applying it because of 
> > the way it was generated. There are no directory names in the diff commands:
> 
> That's probably because "cvs diff" and what I think is "patch" as
> specified by POSIX don't work together well - as I remember reading,
> POSIX mandates that one of the places where "cvs diff" *doesn't* put a
> pathname into the output is the place that should specify the file to be
> patched.

OK. It seems a bit strange that 'cvs diff' behaves in a fixed
way when just plain 'diff' does not. Looking at GNU diff's
command line arguments, I suppose cvs must pass -n to diff
to use RCS format.

Tempting to patch cvs ;-)

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx> <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>