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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 4 | <para>The Patch package contains the patch program.</para>
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| 6 | </sect2>
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| 8 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 10 | <para>The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch
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| 11 | file usually is a list created by the diff program that contains
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| 12 | instructions on how an original file needs to be modified. Patch is used
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| 13 | a lot for source code patches since it saves time and space. Imagine
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| 14 | a package that is 1MB in size. The next version of that package
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| 15 | only has changes in two files of the first version. It can be shipped as an
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| 16 | entirely new package of 1MB or just as a patch file of 1KB which will
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| 17 | update the first version to make it identical to the second version. So
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| 18 | if the first version was downloaded already, a patch file avoids
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| 19 | a second large download.</para>
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| 21 | </sect2>
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