svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Mar 15 07:16:35 UTC 2019


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In message <201903150152.x2F1q34w027789 at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Grimes" 
writes:

>> The first versions of CTM used diff -e and ed(1) to transmit changes,
>> and that choked up on binary files.  We didn't have patch in the
>> tree back then.

>patch has always been in the tree.
>https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2/tree/master/usr/src/usr.bin/patch

Yes, in *that* tree, but it was not always in *our* tree, particularly
not in the strange time between 1.1.5.1 and 2.0.

Trust me: if it had been, I would not have used diff-e+ed(1)


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