Thanks for the recommendations everyone. I got mingw working with a bit of effort - not exactly your usual Windows "bouncing ball" installation process. I was tempted to try unxutils but I'm running Vista so I'll stick with mingw for the moment.

I highly suggest MSYS from http://www.mingw.org. But there is also http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ which includes a patch command.

I have been unable to get patch with UnxUtils to work on Vista. Calling it just does nothing, and I have to Ctrl-X to get back to the DOS prompt. Has anyone else had the same problem and managed to sort it out? ________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org on behalf of Victor Kane Sent: Wed 13/08/2008 19:39 To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Patch software under Windows Either cygwin (explained on this Drupal page: http://drupal.org/node/32875) or another cool alternative are the UnxUtils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/), which sets you up with a special shell also, and is easier to install. Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar <http://awebfactory.com.ar/> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:18 PM, John Fletcher <net@twoedged.org> wrote:

Can anyone tell me a free program that can be used to apply patch files under Windows? There's a page in the drupal handbook about this but none of the programs seemed to work.

Interestingly a number of programs will allow you to create diff files... but what can I use to apply them?

Thanks,

John

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