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From: aaron@satco.UUCP (Aaron Pelton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Re^2: info on diff program producing "patch" useable output
Keywords: diff patch context
Message-ID: <342@satco.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 89 14:47:33 GMT
References: <340@satco.UUCP> <2909@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <604@Aragorn.dde.dk>
Reply-To: aaron@satco.UUCP (Aaron Pelton,Colby Mansion)
Organization: Saturday Company, Waterbury, VT
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In article <340@satco.UUCP>, aaron@satco.UUCP I wrote: (summary)
>     I'm looking for pd source to a diff program useable with patch

envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) wrote: (summary)
>Try "diff -c file1 file2"    (yes, regular diff)

tpo@dde.dk (Thomas Peter Sonne Olesen) wrote (as did another person
				wanting source on an HP machine): (summary)
>This is only true IIF the diff is a berkeley  version of diff. 
>The standard SysV diff does not support option -c.
    which is what I had.

tpo@dde.dk (Thomas Peter Sonne Olesen) continued:
>But I know that a public domain version of diff, that does support -c
>has been posted to the net about an year ago.

At this point I looked to uunet to see if such a beastie was, in fact,
archived there. I find that there is a listing for diffc under
comp.sources.unix.  Thanks to one and all for their help.
-- 
Aaron Pelton		    | If it sounds like an opinion, it's probably mine.
aaron@satco.UUCP            | Only R. Crusoe could have it all done by Friday
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