On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:52:50 +0000, Sir Jason Edmeades scribed thus: > Thanks - Thats what I was after - I knew it should be simple, but I > 'expected' a flag on diff! > Jason Well you can just ignore them you know - patch ignores garbage it doesn't understand. Alternatively do what I do for winecfg and use the --exclude option with an exclusions file. thanks -mike