Chris wrote: > Sorry for asking this but how do I apply this patch? I'm not used to > compiling OSS. Where should I look for more info? RTFM :-) http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/index.html Usually invoked something like: "patch -p1 -i whatever.patch" You can use the GNU --dry-run flag first, for a practice run... --anders