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Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] 'how to patch Freeciv' guide
From: Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:42:47 -0400

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....)

> (I don't know
> about other commercial versions of Unix.)

Most of them don't have any version of "patch" at all.

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