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| − | A '''patch''' is a modification to [[vanilla]] [[NetHack]] not created by the DevTeam. Hundreds of patches can be found at the [http://bilious.homelinux.org/ | + | A '''patch''' is a modification to [[vanilla]] [[NetHack]] not created by the DevTeam. Hundreds of patches can be found at the [[NetHack Patch Database]] ([http://bilious.homelinux.org/ link]). Historically, a small handful of popular patches have been incorporated into official releases. |
If you want to know how to patch your NetHack sources, see the article on [[patching]]. | If you want to know how to patch your NetHack sources, see the article on [[patching]]. | ||
Revision as of 19:23, 28 December 2006
A patch is a modification to vanilla NetHack not created by the DevTeam. Hundreds of patches can be found at the NetHack Patch Database (link). Historically, a small handful of popular patches have been incorporated into official releases.
If you want to know how to patch your NetHack sources, see the article on patching.
patch is also a program that can apply specially formed patch (also known as "diff" after the program that creates them) files. The usual invocation of patch is along the lines of
patch -p1 < patch_file
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