I think he's got an automated reply system that refreshes the site, parses the pages, pulls sarcastic answers from a DB and posts on his behalf.
Anyway...
I haven't tried sucking the patch file in with <
I have tried:
patch -Np0 -i file
...
patch -Np5 -i file
cd dir && patch -Np0 -i ../file
...
cd dir && patch -Np5 -i ../file
without the --N, without the -i, with all the above and none of the above but with -c
and with various directory namings, mostly with the first one in the diff output:
[edit:] sometimes patch hangs doing nothing (w/o -i), sometimes it complains about not find the location/file to patch (most other times)
diff -P -r sane-backends-1.0.7.org/AUTHORS sane-teco-1.07/AUTHORS
55a56
> teco: Frank Zago (*)
diff -P -r sane-backends-1.0.7.org/backend/Makefile.in sane-teco-1.07/backend/Makefile.in
64c64
< st400 tamarack umax umax_pp umax1220u @V4L@
---
> st400 tamarack teco umax umax_pp umax1220u @V4L@
116c116,117
< tamarack.conf tamarack.desc tamarack.h template.desc. umax-scanner.c \
---
> tamarack.conf tamarack.desc tamarack.h teco.desc teco.c teco.h \
> teco.conf umax-scanner.c \
328a330,332
> libsane-teco.la: ../sanei/sanei_config2.lo
> libsane-teco.la: ../sanei/sanei_constrain_value.lo
> libsane-teco.la: ../sanei/sanei_scsi.lo
diff -P -r sane-backends-1.0.7.org/backend/dll.conf sane-teco-1.07/backend/dll.conf
37a38
> teco
diff -P -r sane-backends-1.0.7.org/backend/teco.c sane-teco-1.07/backend/teco.c
0a1,1787
> /* sane - Scanner Access Now Easy.
...