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- There are some stand-alone utilities in this distribution that are
- useful. They must be located in the "RCS:" directory in order for
- the RCS programs to find them, but assuming that "RCS:" is in your
- search path, they are available for other purposes.
-
- First, there is "diff" and "diff3". These are ports from GNU and are much
- faster and more flexible than anything similar available for the Amiga.
- For instance, the version of diff provided here supports directory and
- sub-directory diff listings. Diff3 is probably of limited use except
- inside RCS...however, it does use true pipes and, in conjunction with
- the source for popen.c (in the "rsbx.lib" directory) may prove useful
- as a coding example. [Another good popen() example is merge.c in the source
- directory for RCS. rsbx] At any rate, peruse the README file that is
- present in the "diff" directory for details.
-
- Second there is "ked". This is an Amiga version of the famous (infamous?)
- Unix "ed" program. It is named "ked" here because the name "ed" was
- already taken on the Amiga. It is, as far as I know, completely compatible
- with the Unix version of ed...including the ability to read scripts from
- stdin. It is used by the "merge" program in RCS to process the piped
- output from diff3 but does work stand-alone.
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-
- Rick
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