BPATCH 1 "July 1999"

NAME

bpatch - apply binary batch

SYNOPSIS

bpatch [options] old-file [ new-file ] <patch-file

DESCRIPTION

bpatch applies a binary patch generated by bdiff.
old-file is the same file as used as the first argument to 
bdiff. bpatch will create a copy of the file given
as second argument to bdiff in new-file by using the
information from old-file and patch-file.
If new-file is omitted, the old file is replaced with the new
file.

bpatch will detect if the patch does not match old-file,
or if the patch has been garbled. Remember to transmit binary patches
as binary files!

In case of an error, new-file will not be touched.
bpatch creates a temporary file first whose name is
new-file with the first letter of the filename replaced
with a `$'.

OPTIONS

-i PATCH-FILE,
--input=PATCH-FILE  -  Read patch from specified file. Use this
                       instead of a shell redirection to get binary
                       output on an MS-DOS system: bpatch does not
                       contain non-portable hacks to massage stdin
                       into binary mode;
-h,
--help               - Show help screen;
-v,
--version            - Show version number.

ADMINISTRATIVIA

This manual page is for version 0.2 of bpatch.

(c) copyright 1999 by Stefan Reuther <Streu@gmx.de>. Copying this
program is allowed, as long as you include source code and document
changes you made in a user-visible way so people know they're using
your version, not mine.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
without warranties of any kind, be they explicit or implicit.

SEE ALSO

  diff (1),
  patch (1),
  bdiff (1),
  isprint (3)
