Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Basic question on the use of patches

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From: Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:51:36 -0500
Kevin wrote:
> 
> My apologies on this, but I am not a programmer and I don't want to
> create my own problems.
> 
> Could some one please explain how to use the patches that are sent?  I
> know this is really basic, but I would like to try some of the new
> features and protocols and give feed back on what I find.  To do this, I
> want to makes sure I am not creating problems by doing the patches
> incorrectly.


Hi,


Patches that are accepted are checked into CVS , so you
could avoid the patch handling altogether and just grab nightly
CVS tarball from 

http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/nightly-builds/


Regards / Frank

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