patch 2.2.9-ac4 errors

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Thu, 10 Jun 1999 02:48:13 -0500


Trying to add patch 2.2.9-ac4 to freshly-downloaded 2.2.9 source, and get
the following errors:

can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from ../exclude
linux.vanilla/CREDITS linux.ac/CREDITS
|--- linux.vanilla/CREDITS Thu May 27 22:11:46 1999
|+++ linux.ac/CREDITS Fri Jun 4 23:52:22 1999
--------------------------
File to patch:

This occurs for many files in the Documentation directories. How can I work
around this problem? (Other than manually inputting the full path to the file?

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