Wikipedia: Patch

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1. A piece of fabric.

2. The name of an IBM utility to edit binary files (typically on mainframe installations, eg MVS).

3. The name of a UNIX utility (written by Larry Wall) that applies a set of diff?s to a set of files, allowing changes from one file to be automatically applied to another file.

4. A set of diffs suitable for input to the patch program.

5. A 3d bezier? surface thing used in computer graphics. A primitive in some 3d software packages.

# A piece of fabric.
# The name of an IBM utility to edit binary files (typically on mainframe installations, eg MVS).
# The name of a UNIX utility (written by Larry Wall) that applies a set of diff?s to a set of files, allowing changes from one file to be automatically applied to another file.
# A set of diffs suitable for input to the patch program.
# A 3d bezier? surface thing used in computer graphics. A primitive in some 3d software packages.

A piece of fabric.
The name of an IBM utility to edit binary files (typically on mainframe installations, eg MVS).
The name of a UNIX utility (written by Larry Wall) that applies a set of diff?s to a set of files, allowing changes from one file to be automatically applied to another file.
A set of diffs suitable for input to the patch program.
A 3d bezier? surface thing used in computer graphics. A primitive in some 3d software packages.