Anthony <aslan@ispdr.net.au> was pleased to say:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm new to this list, and have been using Linux for just over a year now.
> I'll get straight to the point, as I think this may be a bit off-topic. I'm
> trying to apply a patch file to support a PCI printer card I've got. The
> patch file contains several patches, but only the last one is working. I'm
> prepared to try and sort it out myself, but I just need to know something
> about the patch file so I might be able to understand how it works. Can
> anyone please explain (or point me to the relevant documentation) to me
> what the following lines mean?:
>
> --- linux/include/linux/pci_ids.h.netmos Sat Sep 8 09:44:43 2001
> +++ linux/include/linux/pci_ids.h Sat Sep 8 09:44:45 2001
> @@ -1664,8 +1664,12 @@
>
> And this is from further down in the patch:
> @@ -2831,6 +2839,15 @@
>
> I'm using RedHat 7.1 with the included 2.4.2-2 kernel. Any help on this
> matter would be much appreciated.
Larry Wall's patch program uses the diff(1) program to perform the file
comparisons, so an "info diff" command is your friend. Hint: this is a context
diff.
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