On Fri, Jun 7, 2002, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > For patch, the -p# tells patch how many directory levels to remove from > > the filenames. If you read through the patch file, you can see that it > > references files as "mutt-1.3.27/init.h" and "mutt-1.3.27/send.c", which > > Question: If I've installed Mutt-1.4i, do I need to go into the patch > source and change all references to "mutt-1.3.27" so that they read > "mutt-1.4i" instead?
No, that's why you use 'patch -p1', so it ignores the 'mutt-1.3.27/' part of the path in the patch. -Ken
