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- Hi all,
-
- this archive contains ports of GNU diff, diff3, sdiff and cmp version 2.1.
- These programs were compiled using gcc 2.3.3 and the mintlibs pl 26,
- using the -mbaserel flag to make them sharable under MiNT.
-
- The sdiff and diff3 programs need to call `diff'. So, diff needs to be
- in your search path and may have extensions ".tos", ".ttp" and ".prg"
- (or no extension at all). If your diff program has a different name
- (such as `blip'), if it is not in your search path, or if it has a
- different extension, set the environment variable DIFF to the full search
- path needed. If you don't do this, the diff3 and sdiff programs won't work.
-
- These programs are sensitive to the format of the files, i.e. diff
- will see a difference between files if one has CR line separators and
- the other has CR+LF line separators. Since these programs do all
- their input in binary format, this would be hard to fix. If it turns
- out to be a problem for you, use the `-w' option to diff, which makes
- it ignore all whitespace differences.
-
- The companion program to diff, sdiff and diff3 is `patch'. In fact, there is
- a common manual for all these programs included in this archive (diff.tex).
- The version of `patch' that was distributed at the same time as this package
- (February 1993) is not sensitive to CR / CR+LF differences, unlike the
- version I messed up and that was released in January 1993.
-
- The sources for these programs are available at prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
- That's it!
- Comments, bug-reports, problems, fan mail or whatever to:
- Hildo Biersma
- boender@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl
-