|Alan> What good would that do, you clearly didnt read them since you
|Alan> asked this question. It does tell you in the Docs to use patch
|Alan> -p0 from /usr/src
I *did* use the -p0 option - and `patch' still gave me a prompt for a
file name whenever I encountered a segment containing a new file.
That's why I assume it's a problem with the version of `patch'.
Paul