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From: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
Subject: Diff Utility for the PC...
Date: 26 Aug 1997, 13:27:01

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Peter Gerwinski wrote:

> According to Orlando Llanes:
> > 
> > Does anybody know of a non-cryptic Diff utility for the PC?
> 
> What do you consider "non-cryptic"?  And what do you mean with "PC"?
> 
> On my PC I use GNU diff exclusively, on Linux or FreeBSD as well as
> on [Caldera|DR|Novell|MS]-DOS (DJGPP); probably an OS/2 port (EMX)
> also exists.
> 
> GNU diff is very configurable.

[..]

Personally, I use `diff -C2 ...' for personal use (to extract a diff from
one source and patch it back into another), because it's fairly easy to
read, and, more important, easy to edit.

For distribution, I prefer `diff -u ...' because of the wide acceptance of
the unidiff format. Remember: a diff is worth nothing if people can't
patch it in because you use some exotic utility.

JJ

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