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

[Oliver Nittka]

Armin Theissen <Armin.Theissen@Sun.COM> writes:

> Hunk #1 FAILED at 7.

this sometimes happend to me when the patchfile had dos-style line
endings and the file(s) to patch hadn't (or vice versa).

mybe "type" does something to your file ?

i usually work around this by opening the patchfile in emacs and save
it using "set-buffer-file-coding-system".

HTH
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