Context Diffs!

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From: rick
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1987 01:17

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In article <1319@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, tytso@thor.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:
> 
> Finally, I'd like to make a plea for context diffs!  It makes it a *lot*
> easier to install patches, since with ed diffs, there's so little
> redundant information I wasn't sure whether I had installed the patch
> correctly or not.  The fact that I had to have to original sources wasn't
> *that* painful, since it was under RCS, but still...

But of course, my version must have gotten 'modified' before I got the
patches, cause now it core dumps on the first command!
-- 
	Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.
(201) 542-3734 (voice, nights)   OR   (201) 834-1378 (voice, days)
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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (rick)
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Subject: Context Diffs!
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 21:17:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 17 21:17:49 1987
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