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- Here is the readme file that came with diff.c as posted to Usenet. I
- can't remember who to give credit to, so I'll just say I'm not taking
- credit for anything but compiling it.
- --Steve
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- Here's a public domain diff with the -b and -c options. (4.2bsd style
- contex diffs.) I wasn't aware that these wern't present in all unix
- versions of diff, so I didn't think posting it was a priority. It's
- large, slow, and many of the comments are no longer true, but it does
- work. (except when it runs out of memory) The one case I know of
- where its output is incompatable with patch does seem to be pretty
- rare. No makefile is included, the 4.2bsd diff is better on the unix
- system I use. If you don't know how to compile and load a single C
- program, this probably isn't the tool for you anyway. I'd be grateful
- to anyone who cleans this up and documents it properly. It does
- appear to have been separate files at some point, I'm presenting it in
- a form similar to how I got it: mail headers and outdated documentation
- in comments and all. I just banged on it enough to get it doing what
- I wanted.
-