> From: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu> > To: egcs@cygnus.com > Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:58:46 -0500 > The diffs are larger than the file so I am just sending the new > file. Please don't do this. The reason is that is someone else modifies it in between the time you fetched it and the time the patch is installed, their work is silently lost. With a patch, work is never silently lost.