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chaos@tellurium:/tmp/foo/brmh-dev-20071022$ patch -p1 < inform.patch
missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- inform.c.orig      2008-07-28 23:05:27.000000000 -0400
|+++ inform.c   2008-07-28 22:54:06.000000000 -0400
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File to patch: inform.c
patching file inform.c