[Freeciv-Dev] Re: 'how to patch Freeciv' guide

[Heikki Kantola <hezu@xxxxxx>]

According to Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Reinier Post (rp@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: 
> > It would be helpful to mention that not only GNU diff, but also GNU patch
> > is much better than the version distributed with Solaris.
> 
> Oh yes, definitely! :-)  (Did you also get rid of the Solaris version
> of sendmail?  They're still shipping versions with well-known major
> security holes, last time I checked....)

You propably checked before Solaris 7 came out, which should have 
sendmail 8.9, which doesn't have that many fatal bugs AFAIK.

> > (I don't know
> > about other commercial versions of Unix.)
> 
> Most of them don't have any version of "patch" at all.

Um, from the selection of commercial Unicen (Compaq Tru64 (formerly
digital) UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX) I've access to, all have patch-progs,
although they're indeed inferior when compared with GNU one...
 
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