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Re: [Bug?] patchutils: interdiff /dev/stdin ... doesn't work


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried running interdiff on standard input, following the example from
> the interdiff manpage:
>
> 	Reversing part of a patch (and ignoring the rest):
>
> 	      filterdiff -i file.c patchfile | \
> 	        interdiff /dev/stdin /dev/null
>
> The command I used was
>
> 	cvs diff -rHEAD | interdiff /dev/stdin /dev/null
>
> and got a "/dev/stdin: No such file or directory" message from interdiff.
> While I realize that there's no system-level support for /dev/stdin in
> Cygwin (though bash does support it), using "-" didn't work either.  Is
> this a known limitation of patchutils?
> 	Igor

Oops, I had every intention of including this in the original message:

$ cygcheck -cd cygwin patchutils
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
cygwin               1.5.11-1
patchutils           0.2.30pre1-1

Sorry,
	Igor
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