# HG changeset patch
# User diego
# Date 1093549572 0
# Node ID ccce2d564161e65c809936c32673bdec703cd475
# Parent  fd40ef23053bd5754a196303679857788f3ff758
Patches should be gzip or bzip2 compressed if necessary.

diff -r fd40ef23053b -r ccce2d564161 DOCS/tech/patches.txt
--- a/DOCS/tech/patches.txt	Thu Aug 26 19:38:16 2004 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/patches.txt	Thu Aug 26 19:46:12 2004 +0000
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@
     for unapplied patches, so please use it.
     Do not compress your patch unless it is larger than 80k or if you know
     that your mailer messes up (reformats) text attachments. It only makes
-    handling the patch more difficult.
+    handling the patch more difficult. If you have to compress your patch,
+    use bzip2 or gzip to compress it, not another non-standard format.
     You have to subscribe to mplayer-dev-eng since we blocked postings from
     non-subscribers after spam problems and because patches get reviewed by
     the developers on the list. We want you to be available for discussing