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	<para>Please only use characters <literal>[-+._a-zA-Z0-9]</literal> for
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	<para>Please only use characters <literal>[-+._a-zA-Z0-9]</literal> for
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	  naming your patches.  Do not use any other characters besides them.
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	  naming your patches.  Do not use any other characters besides them.
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	  Do not name your patches like <filename>patch-aa</filename> or
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	  Do not name your patches like <filename>patch-aa</filename> or
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	  <filename>patch-ab</filename> etc, always mention path and file name
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	  <filename>patch-ab</filename> etc, always mention the path
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	  and file name
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	  in patch names.</para>
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	  in patch names.</para>
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	<para>Do not put RCS strings in patches.  CVS will mangle them when we
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	<para>Do not put RCS strings in patches.  CVS will mangle them when we
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	<para>If you want to create a patch file based off of an
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	<para>If you want to create a patch file based off of an
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	  existing file, you can copy it with an
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	  existing file, you can copy it with an
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	  <filename>.orig</filename> extension, and then modify the
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	  <filename>.orig</filename> extension, and then modify the
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	  original one.  Run <maketarget>makepatch</maketarget>, and
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	  original one.  The <maketarget>makepatch</maketarget> target
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	  this will write out an appropriate patch file to the <filename
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	  will write out an appropriate patch file to the <filename
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	    class="directory">files</filename> directory of the
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	    class="directory">files</filename> directory of the
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	  port.</para>
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	  port.</para>
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      </sect1>
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      </sect1>

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