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[63eb55cb]1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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[63eb55cb]3<sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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[63eb55cb]5<para>Last checked against version &patch-contversion;.</para>
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[63eb55cb]7<sect3><title>Program files descriptions</title>
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[bdc08c1]9<sect4><title>patch</title>
[b822811]10<para>The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch
[6a9875d]11file usually is a list, created by the diff program, that contains
[6370fa6]12instructions on how an original file needs to be modified. Patch is used
13a lot for source code patches since it saves time and space. Imagine
[32cee45c]14a package that is 1 MB in size. The next version of that package
[7d90bd3]15only has changes in two files of the first version. It can be shipped as an
[6a9875d]16entirely new package of 1 MB or just as a patch file of 1 KB, which will
[6370fa6]17update the first version to make it identical to the second version. So
[7d90bd3]18if the first version was downloaded already, a patch file avoids
[bdc08c1]19a second large download.</para></sect4>
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21</sect3>
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