Quote Originally Posted by willalbro
patch is a Linux utility used to patch the Linux kernel among other things. It's pretty nifty as it uses a file comparison utility called diff to compare the files and the patch script tells whether to add, subtract, or overwrite code blocks at specified line numbers. I am grateful to google for releasing this but I really wish it was released in standard format..this really slows me down so I will not plan on integrating it right now until it is easier to install.
Aha! That makes sense. I haven't seen that before. The format did look rather peculiar to me . . .