I am not able to understand the syntax/usage of patch; I am not able to find any help docs on the patch/gnuwin32 website either

START + Programs + GnuWin32 + Patch + patch-man.pdf 

"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\man\pdf\patch-man.pdf"

[download]

http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/#Invoking-patch

patch

So, I am not sure what exactly I am doing wrong.

You're not reading closely, and you're not copy/paste-ing 

cd UMMF-1.02
patch -p1 < path/to/patchfile

we have .. should we ...

Have you self-replicated? How'd you do that!?

:)  :P :D ;)

In reply to Re^5: UMMF perl script execution.. by Anonymous Monk
in thread UMMF perl script execution.. by soumyapanda

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