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From: tpo@dde.dk (Thomas Peter Sonne Olesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re^2: info on diff program producing "patch" useable output
Keywords: diff patch context
Message-ID: <604@Aragorn.dde.dk>
Date: 1 Jul 89 07:42:53 GMT
References: <340@satco.UUCP> <2909@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
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envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>In article <340@satco.UUCP>, aaron@satco.UUCP (Aaron Pelton) writes:
>< 
><     I'm looking for pd source to a diff program that will produce output that
><patch can use as input. I would prefer info on where it may be obtained and/or
><*if* you could mail it to me. I do not have ftp access.
><					murky buckets.
>Try "diff -c file1 file2"    (yes, regular diff)
>That is all that patch needs.
>_____________________________________
>Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

This is not alwayes true. It is correct that the option -c produce
the context diff, known to patch,  IIF the diff is a berkeley  version of
the diff. 

The standard SysV diff does not support option -c.

But I know that a public domain version of diff, that does support -c
has been posted to the net about an year ago.

/Thomas
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