how to get source from s.patch, s.patch.orig?

[Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci]

At 22.18 01/01/2002 (GMT -0500), eric wrote:
>Dear gcc:
>
>   for get ing the source code of gcc, I download from mandrake srpm
>7.2(with orig) 8.0


Why don't you simply download the gcc sources in tgz from?
You can get them from the gcc ftp 
(ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/index.html) or its mirrors 
(http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).
Just grab the GCC full distribution, and unpack it in some directory (tar 
-xvzf gcc-3.0.3.tar.gz -C destination_directory).
If you want older the source for an older version, those are also on the 
same ftp (ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/). Don't know of the mirrors.

HTH, fwyzard