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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: patch not working on Windows 7 x64
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120723192825.GF17234@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499Bn+h9vUSUm8DZZ_jt+H+zG7i7HmR_5Jp4YLGkkafxU3Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 23 14:20, Robert Dailey wrote:
> I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64 and when I run just 'patch', it
> hangs and never returns. If I do 'patch --help', help is printed just
> fine. I'm not sure why this is happening.
> 
> Any help getting this working?

Getting *what* working?  If you just run patch without any options,
then hanging is exactly the right thing to do for patch, since it's
waiting for input.  Try `man patch' and read about the -i option.


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-23 19:20 Robert Dailey
2012-07-23 19:28 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2012-07-23 19:31 ` marco atzeri
2012-07-23 19:33   ` Robert Dailey
2012-07-23 19:41     ` marco atzeri
     [not found]     ` <A9D8BF3D8A74DF4A925FB541C0F39D2A16C2117A7A@NIHMLBX15.nih.gov>
2012-07-23 19:53       ` Robert Dailey
2012-07-23 20:13         ` marco atzeri

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