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To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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Subject: Re: Patch generation
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From: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2000 21:31:44 -0800
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Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> writes:

> > (I prefer EMACS, which likes to unlink.)
> No it doesn't, not always.  Your choice:
>   (setq make-backup-files nil)
>   (setq backup-by-copying t)

i would recommend to use the orig.el[1] from frederic.lepied with Emacs,
it save any files before editing with a particuliar prefix and you can
generate the patch with the gendiff script (included with rpm).

Footnotes: 
[1]  ftp://ftp.chmouel.org/pub/people/chmou/orig.el

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MandrakeSoft Inc                     http://www.chmouel.org
                      --Chmouel
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