chaos@tellurium:/tmp/foo/brmh-dev-20071022$ patch -p1 < inform.patch missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |--- inform.c.orig 2008-07-28 23:05:27.000000000 -0400 |+++ inform.c 2008-07-28 22:54:06.000000000 -0400 -------------------------- File to patch: inform.c patching file inform.c