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From: mfoley@csi.compuserve.com (M Foley)
Subject: FLOPPY TAPE DRIVER PATCHES - Which? How? HELP!
Message-ID: <CE5JFC.HzB@csi.compuserve.com>
Organization: CompuServe Incorporated
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 05:33:07 GMT
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I'm about to try building Steve Gerakines' floppy tape driver, but I'm
confused.
Steve's driver was posted on 4 Sep. On 07 Sep Serge Vakulenko wrote in
article <AANoGZiCJ0@zebub.msk.su>:
>Floppy tape driver, recently posted to comp.os.386bsd.development,
>is based upon old fd.c, and installing it on 386bsd 0.1 pk0.2.4
>causes some problems (probably, on NetBSD too).
>
>Apply this patch to ft source tree, and then install it according to README.
>After that it will install and work.
>
>This patch also adds yet another utility: ftinfo.
>It tests and prints paramaters of tape.
Then, on 18 Sept Steve wrote in article <CDJB5r.9J6@genesis.nred.ma.us>:
>Enclosed are patches to bring the floppy tape driver for 386BSD up
>to patchlevel 01. I found a number of bugs over the last couple of
>days that were of high priority.
>
>Also included in this package is a program called "ftfilt". This ...
Do I apply both patches? One but not the other? In which order? HELP!
Now for the big question. What does it mean to "apply this patch"? I have
not "patched" except for installing the patchkits. I naively searched for
a command 'patch' which I hoped would apply these patches e.g.
patch saved_article
Naturally, this was too optimistic. So - which patches and how?