Looking for help applying patch to NEdit

[Bert Wesarg]

Hello
> Hello -
>
> I'm trying to apply the T. K. Soh toolbar patch to Nedit 5.5 source code,
> and am having a problem understanding how to do this. This is the first
> time
> I've tried to apply a patch, so please excuse my ignorance.
>
> I've downloaded the Nedit source code nedit-5.5-src.tar.Z and
> uncompressed/untarred it into a directory called "nedit-5.5" and compiled
> and built the downloaded version on an HP-UX 11.11 workstation.
>
> Then, I downloaded the patch file nedit-toolbar-patch-v1.0b.txt.gz from
> sourceforge, and unzipped the file. When I tried to apply the patch, all I
> got was what I guess is an error message:
>
>     [14:58 ./nedit-5.5 ] patch -p1 < nedit-toolbar-patch-v1.0b.txt
>     Hmm...  I can't seem to find a patch in there anywhere.
Looks like the HP-UX patch(1) don't understand the unified diff format.
you can try to install a patch programm that understand this format.

Bert Wesarg

>
> Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong (and what it is), and
> provide me with some help to get this to work? I'm very eager to try to
> use
> the patched version of Nedit.
>
> Thank you so much.
>
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