[DGD]Patches

[James Bearden]

Dah. I'm confused.

>From: "Jason Cone" <jcone at uscdev.com>
>Reply-To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
>To: <dgd at list.imaginary.com>
>Subject: Re: [DGD]Patches
>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:25:49 -0500
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Par Winzell" <zell at skotos.net>
>
>
> > James Bearden writes:
> >  > Any idea as to what the difference is between the two different 
>peices
>of
> >  > code in comm.c's patch?
> >  >
> >  [snip]
> >
> > It means you should look at the original source, note that it looks
> > just like the first line with the !, and then replace it with the
> > second line with an !, minus the actual !
> >
> > In other words, where + is add, ! is change. I shall leave it as an
> > exercise to the reader to figure out what - stands for.
>
>Actually, he's talking about those 2 lines that are both different, yet
>unmarked as such by diff.  Specifically, the differences between '*q++ =
>LF;' and '*q++ = CR;'.  They're different, but there's no ! marker.
>
>Anyway, it's funny that you point it out -- I've never noticed that before.
>Looking at my ansi-patched source, though, there are even more differences
>surrounding the context of that change.  I wouldn't worry about it too 
>much,
>though.  I've generally had to apply the ansi patch by hand every time and
>have only changed the one line (in comm[.net].c, that is) to recoginze the
>ESC character.
>
>So, yeah, net/net -- just add that little '&&' clause in the 'if' statement
>to handle the ESC character as well as the definition of said character in
>host.h.
>
>JC
>
>
>
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