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      1 This version of `patch' has many changes made by the Free Software Foundation.
      2 They add support for:
      3  * handling arbitrary binary data and large files
      4  * the unified context diff format that GNU diff can produce
      5  * making GNU Emacs-style backup files
      6  * improved interaction with RCS and SCCS
      7  * the GNU conventions for option parsing and configuring and compilation.
      8  * better POSIX compliance
      9 They also fix some bugs.  See the NEWS and ChangeLog files for details.
     10 
     11 Tutorial-style documentation for patch is included in the GNU
     12 Diffutils package; get GNU Diffutils 2.8 or later for up-to-date
     13 documentation for patch.
     14 
     15 For GNU and Unix build and installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
     16 Use `configure --disable-largefile' to disable large file support;
     17 this is reportedly necessary on Red Hat GNU/Linux 6.0 to avoid a C library bug.
     18 For MS-DOS using DJGPP tools, see the file pc/djgpp/README.
     19 For other systems, copy config.hin to config.h and change
     20 #undef statements in it to #define as appropriate for your system,
     21 and copy Makefile.in to Makefile and set the variables that are
     22 enclosed in @ signs as appropriate for your system.
     23 
     24 Please send bug reports for this version of patch to
     25 <bug-patch (a] gnu.org>.
     26 
     27 The Free Software Foundation is distributing this version of patch
     28 independently because as of this writing, Larry Wall has not released a
     29 new version of patch since mid-1988.  We have heard that he has been
     30 too busy working on other things, like Perl.  He has graciously agreed
     31 to let GNU `patch' be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
     32 Public License.
     33 
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     36 Copyright (C) 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall
     37 
     38 Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2002 Free
     39 Software Foundation, Inc.
     40 
     41 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     42 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     43 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
     44 any later version.
     45 
     46 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     47 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     48 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
     49 See the GNU General Public License for more details.
     50 
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     52 along with this file; see the file COPYING.
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