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+patch/orig copies a file to /n/sources/plan9
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+It may not always be desirable to have an entire
+source tree in /n/sources/plan9.
+For simple patch work, it is sufficient to copy
+the original file to /n/sources/plan9.
+This is what patch/orig does.
+
+(It also ignores .orig in the given path.)