patch not working on Windows 7 x64

I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64 and when I run just 'patch', it hangs and never returns. If I do 'patch --help', help is printed just fine. I'm not sure why this is happening. Any help getting this working? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

Re: patch not working on Windows 7 x64

Well it hangs no matter what I do, I've also tried: patch bug.patch And it still hangs... On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:31 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 7/23/2012 9:20 PM, Robert Dailey wrote: >> >> I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64 and when I run just 'patch',

Re: patch not working on Windows 7 x64

I did read the documentation, and obviously I'm still posting here because that didn't help. Everyone is pretty rude on this list... Feeding the file in from stdin like this does work, however the documentation makes it seem like I can pass the file name in directly and it will open it and read it