Your patch should be OK - could you paste the exact output?
	
	(script is a useful command for times like these :)

		David/absolute

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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Armen Babikyan wrote:

> >> Hmm, is there somewhere i can get the source tree of the 1.3.1 kernel at
> >> around the time the 1.3.1 snapshot was made?
> >
> >The 1.3.1 snapshot?  It's 1.3.1 *release*, actually, and you can get
> >the 1.3 source and the 1.3-to-1.3.1 diffs.
> >
> 
> Okay, I got the NetBSD-1.3-1.3.1.sys.diff.gz file and ungzipped it
> 
> I'm not quite sure what to do next. When I changed pwd to /usr/src (my
> syssrc tree is /usr/src/sys ) and ran "patch < *diff" I got an error like
> "Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me..."
> 
> does this mean my version of patch is too old? my system is a NetBSD 1.3.1
> snapshot system.  I'm probably not using patch correctly or something.
> 
> If anyone can give me any more pointers on applying this patch, I'd be most
> grateful.
> 
> thanks a lot!
> 
>   - a
> 
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