No One wrote :

> Has anyone come across this altered version.

Is it this patch your searching for?
<URL: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-fileutils@gnu.org/msg01882.html>

OK. it seems to be a bit old as its for version 4.1 and Slackware comes
with version 5.2.1. But it ought to be possible to make a updated
version of the patch.
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Thomas O.

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