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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Oliver Nittka wrote:
> 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".

_Did_ you try the easy way I suggested? Does it happen then, too?

Corinna

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