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From: istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Side by side diff that ignores white space
Keywords: diff white space sdiff
Message-ID: <561@hhb.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 90 14:53:55 GMT
Organization: HHB Systems, Mawah, NJ
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keller@ficc.ferranti.com (Curtis Keller @ Ferranti) writes:
>Any pointers on a side-by-side difference tool (sdiff?) that ignores
>ALL white space (preceding and embeded) making a comparison of two
>ascii files and displays the two files side-by-side.  

# cdiff
twin `q cweed $1` `q cweed $2`
exit 0

Posted to alt.sources on Mar 21 the source for "twin" (C and Unix):
"Subject: twin --- a different kind of diff"
Size:28K

Posted to alt.sources on Jun 9 the sources for "q" and "cweed":
"Subject: ILIB Unix Toolkit in C"
(ILIB is a collection of general purpose routines; "q" and "cweed"
are among the 35 example programs or tools.)
Size:485K
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