New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I'll never argue against making a backup!
To be fair, though, I've had pretty great results with patch. It has warned me before that a patch isn't right, and asked me for confirmation to proceed (at which point I do not proceed, check the patch and my syntax, and continue as necessary)
This is such a neat little command. Great find, Don. I've been using it for file transfer lately on Slackware, and it's been working great.