[TUHS] Diff and Patch on v7

[Leah Neukirchen]

Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> writes:

> I got a diff for adding actual backspace and delete to v7, linked off
> of gunkies... Anyhow, I can manually edit the referenced files and
> rebuild, but I would rather do it canonically. I don't see patch
> anywhere, so did v7 users use diffs to patch source and if so what's
> the magic?

patch(1) was written by Larry Wall in 1985, and released over Usenet.

v7 users likely used diff -e, and piped to ed to apply it.

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Leah Neukirchen  <leah at vuxu.org>  https://leahneukirchen.org/