Re: your mail

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:11:58PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> I am trying to apply the newest patches to ncurses 5.2 and all the patches
> are failing. I am relatively new to using patch, so I'm not sure if I'm
> doing it correctly. Could someone give me more detailed instructions on
> applying the patches? What should I expect to see? 
> I have the 20020427.patch.sh 'rollup' patch from dickey.his.com that is
> supposed to update my source to that patch level from the 5.2 distribution. 
> Thank you very much for your time.

This is still pertinent -

        http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#applying_patches

Specifically, to apply the given rollup patch, download

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.2/patch-5.2-20020427.sh.gz

and

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-5.2.tar.gz

then (assuming they're both in the same directory), the quickest way to
proceed:

gzip -dc ncurses-5.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd ncurses-5.2
gzip -dc patch-5.2-20020427.sh.gz |sh

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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