does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:40:12AM +0100, Armin Theissen wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I searched the website for this problem, but cannot find anything 
> so I want to ask you here. 
> 
> I have a patch (see attachment, supposed to patch three files down the 
> directory tree) which won't work using the patch.exe tool provided with 
> cygwin. However, it works perfectly with other patch.exe tools 
> (UnxUtils from http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html )
> and on unix systems itself. 
> 
> I wonder what could make the patch work with the cygwin patching 
> tool. 
> 
> The patch command is 'patch -b -p2'
> 
> Any ideas? 

Without details about the error you get from patch? No.

Corinna

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