How to create patches (Win 95/98/NT/2000) Download the Cygwin tool-set http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ make sure that the 'bin' directory is in your PATH environmental variable (generally add "C:\cygwin\bin" to your PATH). type: diff -u -b old_file(or directory) new_file(or directory) > patchfile Now you can give people the patchfile and they can use it to create your new_file(or directory) from the old_file(or directory).