[support] Patch software under Windows

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Clarke Robin <Robin.Clarke at networkrail.co.uk>:

> 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?
>

I highly recommend MSYS from www.mingw.org.  MSYS is a minimal system 
created from Cygwin.  There have been some Vista issues but most have 
been able to overcome and you should be able to get help from the user 
list.

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