Resolved...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 9, 2007 9:28 PM, Steven R. Loomis <<a href="mailto:srl@icu-project.org">srl@icu-project.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
On 09 Nov 2007, at 20:51, Jonathan Leffler wrote:</blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2007 6:26 AM, Arthur David Olson <<a href="mailto:olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov" target="_blank">
olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Here are proposed changes to eliminate the "P" macro from time zone source
<br>(a first step in simplifying the code by assuming C99 compilers).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I tried to apply this as a patch and run into two problems. <br><ol><li>The
file names are not readily obvious to the patch program; the names it
sees are /tmp/geta13002 and /tmp/getb13002 etc, rather than (say)
date.c.</li><li>There should be a 2 characters (eg two blanks, or "! "
or "+ ") at the start of each line, but by the time Gmail gets the
message, there's a blank missing at the start of lines such as the
#ifndef lines at the start of the patch below. I also had some
unfortunate line-wrapping, but I'm willing to blame that on the (other)
email program I use. <br></li><li>I tried manually fixing up the patch file for the line starts, but was not successful.<br></li></ol> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>------- date.c -------<br>*** /tmp/geta13002 Thu Nov 8 09:23:34 2007<br>--- /tmp/getb13002 Thu Nov 8 09:23:34 2007<br>***************</blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div>The patch worked for me, I did "patch < patch.txt" against tzcode2007h and fed it each filename in sequence. Compiled fine as well.</div><div><br></div><div>The patch did look a bit strange, as to the filename format.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks. The problem was at my end - working out how to get an uncorrupted file out of Gmail wasn't as straight-forward as I expected. However, the third time, I used the "show original" option followed by saving that page and the patch worked fine when I supplied the names manually.
<br><br>Steve - thank you for sending the patch to the patch -- I would have used it except for the problems of getting it out of Gmail, too. By the time I'd resolved that, I'd also typed the file names in.<br></div>
</div><br>-- <br>Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com">jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</a>> #include <disclaimer.h><br>Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2007.0914 - <a href="http://dbi.perl.org">
http://dbi.perl.org</a><br>"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."