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- From: mick@muppet.bt.co.uk (Mick Burnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Delta (Difference) File Generation Algo
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.124001.26264@muppet.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 12:40:01 GMT
- References: <915@ulogic.UUCP>
- Sender: news@muppet.bt.co.uk
- Reply-To: mick@muppet.bt.co.uk
- Organization: British Telecom
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- In article 915@ulogic.UUCP, hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
- >In article <bkK7_Q5l@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
- >>Traditional diff3 has the synopsis
- >>
- >> diff3 [ options ] filename1 filename2 filename3
- >
- >What's the third file name for?
- >
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- NAME
- diff3 - display line-by-line differences between 3 files
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- SYNOPSIS
- diff3 [ options ] filename1 filename2 filename3
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- DESCRIPTION
- diff3 compares three versions of a file, and publishes
- disagreeing ranges of text flagged with these codes:
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- ==== All three files differ
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- ====1 filename1 is different
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- ====2 filename2 is different
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- ====3 filename3 is different
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- Hope this helps,
- Mick.
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