Whoa.. It didnt list the < in the manpage..Or at least I didnt catch it..:P
The manual page for patch does not exist on the solaris system, thats why
I'm assuming it is not there..
God against man, man against God, man against nature, God against man, man
against God, man against nature, nature against man, nature against God,
God against nature...very funny religion!
On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, Kilkenny wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, Ja vel Bosdal wrote:
> > Hmmm.. Well, not all unix systems are created equal.. In fact, the one we
> > use 'Solaris' doesnt even have a patch command.. Its possible the
>
> Solaris does have patch.. make sure the path for the command is in you PATH
>
> It should be in /usr/bin
>
> > A side note, I tried to install patches on my other account, and they
> > seemed to lock up as well.. would have to kill the task cause it would
> > just sit there and do nothing for about 10 minutes.. and that is with the
> > patch command.
>
> If you don't specify a filename it's waiting for input from stdin..
>
> The correct syntax is: patch < filename
> ^
> This one is necessary! :)
>
> Those man-pages is really helpful.. *hint hint* ;)
>
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