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- * Tue Sep 22 21:32:40 1992
-
- This is my port of the new GNU diff 2.0 utilities. They are currently
- compiled with GCC 2.2.2 pl3 and Eric Smith's headers and libraries for
- MiNT at patchlevel 21.
-
- `diff3.ttp' is completly untested. `diff.ttp' was only tested by
- producing the diffs to the original diff 2.0 distribution from prep
- and by using it as part of RCS 5.6 (Revision Control System). I would
- think, that atleast `diff.ttp' and `cmp.ttp' should also run on
- systems, which are running plain TOS. For `sdiff.ttp' I made a short
- go nogo test and so far it seems to be working fine. I ran the
- executables from Eric Smith's port of `tcsh' and under MiNT 0.96pl4.
-
- I extract the original tar archive on my UN*X box at work, which is
- mostly like a ATT System V.3, and ran the configure script. This
- produced the `Makefile' and `configure.status'. Then I zoo'ed the diff
- directory and took the stuff home.
-
- Once there, I edited the `Makefile' and could produce running versions
- of the programs without changing one line of code. After that I
- included some modifications, which I used in diff 1.15. All
- executables open any file in binary mode. This is hardwired with a
- `_binmode(1);'. Perhaps I should remove that and let the library
- decide by looking at the environment variable `UNIXMODE'. Additionally
- I wrote some code, which shows the equivalent long and show options,
- if diff is invoked with `--help'.
-
- That's all folks. Hope, that it works for you as it does for me.
- --
- Cheers
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