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- From: bhahn@sw.stratus.com (Bill Hahn)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Delta (Difference) File Generation Algorithm
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:12:55 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
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- References: <C119Gt.C6J@panix.com> <1993Jan18.084828.3578@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <899@ulogic.UUCP>
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- In article <899@ulogic.UUCP>, hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
- > RCS likes a difference program called "diff3" that is not (if I remember
- > correctly) included in the RCS distribution. I think diff3 is one of
- > the GNU products. That's the program that generates the differences
- >[stuff omitted].
-
- Danger!
-
- There is a diff3 which is part of GNU diff, and there is an older diff3
- which can be found on UNIX systems; these programs, while having
- similar intent, and the same name, take a different number of
- command line arguments -- and can thus cause much confusion. The
- older diff3 expects as arguments some diff files - check out your
- local 'merge' script to see if both 'diff' and 'diff3' are run, and
- whether diff3 takes 3 or 5 filenames as arguments.
-
- Just thought I'd warn about a potential frustrating time-sink. "Yes,
- *this *diff3 is different than *that* diff3."
-
- --
- Bill Hahn bhahn@sw.stratus.com
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