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- From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
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- Subject: wdiff - Patch 4, Part (0/4) - brings 0.03 to 0.04
- Message-ID: <PINARD.92Dec24002857@kovic.IRO.UMontreal.CA>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 05:28:57 GMT
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- Organization: Universite' de Montre'al
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- The program wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word
- per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace. This program
- is particularily useful for comparing two texts in which a few words
- have been changed and for which paragraphs have been refilled.
-
- A new release will soon be available on prep.ai.mit.edu, in directory
- pub/gnu, as file wdiff-0.04.tar.Z. All reported bugs have been fixed.
- Thanks to all those who contributed comments or suggestions.
-
- Installation has been simplified. Flex is not anymore required for
- non ANSI-C compilers. wdiff uses the first found of gnudiff, diffgnu,
- gdiff or diff. Some other portability problems have been alleviated.
- Here is a list of differences from version 0.03, extracted from NEWS:
-
- * Add -a for automatic pager call, disallow this by default.
- * Add -l for less-like overstriking.
- * Add -n to forbid wrapping of differences.
- * New cbars script for producing change bars.
- * man page for wdiff 0.04. Contributed and supported by contributor.
-
-
- Apply the patch contained in the associated articles to wdiff-0.03 to
- get wdiff-0.04. It is a unified diff, you can apply it using a recent
- version of the patch program, like patch-2.0.12g8.tar.Z in /pub/gnu
- from prep.ai.mit.edu. Given you have it, first save the following
- articles, unshar them in sequence to produce file Patch4, then execute
- the following commands:
-
- cd wdiff-0.03
- patch < Patch4
-
- After having patched wdiff, the time stamps might be improper. You
- might somewhat alleviate the problem with the two following commands:
-
- touch configure <- if you forget this, you need autoconf!
- touch wdiff.info <- if you forget this, you need makeinfo!
-
- Also, because the diffs from 0.03 to 0.04 are fairly big, I pruned
- them before distribution. In particular, please remove these files:
-
- testinput1
- testinput2
- testoutput
- unproto.l
- version.c
- xmalloc.c
- xstrdup.c
-
- It does not matter if you remove these files before or after having
- applied Patch4.
- --
- Franc,ois Pinard ``Happy GNU Year!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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