Re: patching and ftp questions

[Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, eric jackson wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Dan Cuthbert wrote:
>
> > patch -p0 /home/dan/crap/005_ftpd.patch
> >
> > and it just sits and sits and does nothing
> > Am i missing\doing something wrong?
>
> and what dir do you do this in?

Even more important: don't forget the '<' input redirection.  Shouldn't
that be: patch -p0 < /home/dan/crap/005_ftpd.patch ?

Otherwise patch will read from standard input, and unless you type in a
valid diff, it will sit and sit and do nothing.
-- 
Tod McQuillin