From help-request at octave dot org Tue Feb 22 21:37:27 2005
Subject: Re: Applying patches [was "Re: Inconsistent behaviour of (:)"]
From: Joe Koski <jkoski11 at comcast dot net>
To: "John B. Thoo" <jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us>,         "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
CC: <help-octave at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:43:15 -0700

on 2/22/05 7:54 PM, John B. Thoo at jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:31 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
>> Please try the following patch.
> 
> I'm sorry for what must be a truly daft question, but how does one
> apply a patch?
> 
> TIA.
> ---John.

I had the same question a few weeks ago, but I muddled through. First, in a
terminal, do

  man patch

for too much information about options.

What worked for me was

  patch orig_file.m <patch_name

which is simple enough, after you separate the correct patch text.

Jo




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