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.TH VLPATCH 1 "2005-03-26"
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.SH NAME
vlpatch \- apply a patch with VCS::Lite
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vlpatch
.RI [ options ] " original patch"
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B vlpatch command.
.PP
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\fBvlpatch\fP is a program that applies a patch to an original
with the VCS::Lite perl module.
.SH OPTIONS
.B \-\-output outfile
.PP
If --output is not specified, the patched file is put in place of the original,
and the original is renamed to *.orig.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR vldiff (1),
.BR vlmerge (1),
.BR VCS::Lite (3).
.SH AUTHOR
vlpatch was written by Ivor Williams.
.PP
This manual page was written by Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).