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From: brendan@illyria.wpd.sgi.com (Brendan Eich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: /usr/lib/rdiff and /bin/diff (Was: elementary problems)
Summary: BSD diff is coming
Message-ID: <48567@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 18 Jan 90 22:49:11 GMT
References: <12806@cgl.ucsf.EDU> <9001161923.aa03052@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <2956@odin.SGI.COM>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <2956@odin.SGI.COM>, msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
> The case sensitivity problem has been fixed and the fix will appear in the
> next release.  Canonicalizehostname converts all hostnames to lower case.
> 
> /usr/lib/rdiff is the diff program for rcs and is essentially the 4.3BSD diff.

And in that same next release, /bin/diff will be the 4.3BSD diff ported to
Irix, replacing the (subset) SVR3 diff.  BSD diff fans needn't alias diff to
/usr/lib/rdiff forever.

Brendan Eich
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
brendan@sgi.com