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I'm guessing that patch failed on Windows because it was reading the input file in"text" mode which signals end-of-file when it encounters a CONTROL-Z (byte 0x18) in the input file. This is a legacy mode from early DOS days when the directory did not record the length of the file and so the file-length was computed based on the number of 512-byte sectors. If you can tell patch to open the file in binary mode, it shouldn't have this error.

Adrian Pronk
– Adrian Pronk

2020-02-29 21:06:01 +00:00
Commented Feb 29, 2020 at 21:06

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