My questions for y'all are how would you go about doing this? Use
vi to delete everything through the ==== cut here line?
In my world, if I screw something up, it's 15 seconds to run a
restore script in my simh directory and I can try again, so my
level of concern for a mistake is pretty low. If I was doing this
in 1980, on real hardware, I would have had many concerns, as I'm
sure some of y'all can remember, how did you prepare and protect
yourselves so a patch was successful.
Run an incremental backup and/or copy the files you new you we were messing with. The good news was that patch makes backups.
BTW, I thought .shar was an archive format, so when I saw the
patch was a shar file,
It was so of. It was a way to send files around that people could easily execute and you new would work through 7-bit based email which is all the SMTP guaranteed in the early days. Yeh but .. uucp was 8 yep. But some of the legs of the USENET were luck to be based on Arpanet site, which might have had a mailer running BITNET. When shar was created the 'least needed' style assumptions were used. As it was it was often that people put tarballs, then compressed them and then uuencoded them inside. Often a space savings and made it easier -> compressed tar was pretty good, and even with the 3 8-bit chars as 4 6-bit chars of uuencode it will worked out well in practice.