MC Source question

[Roland Illig]

William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On a somewhat unrelated note, looking there I find the below mentioned
> file: is this a patch, or the whole source tree? Sorry to ask such a
> stupid question, I'm not a developer.
> 
>  mc-4.6.1-pre4a.tar.gz                              18-Mar-2005 17:38  3.7M

It's the whole source tree. In most cases patches have either the word 
"diff" or "patch" in their filename.

Roland