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Subject: Re: GNU diff for MSDOS
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Date: 16 Jul 90 19:50:24 GMT
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From article <1990Jul13.181022.2792@cc.ic.ac.uk>, by rb@cc.ic.ac.uk (Robin Becker):
> I tried out the MSDOS versions of patch and GNU diff that were posted
> recently and got dissappointing results.  I don't have TC 2.0 and don't
> like all of their nonstandard bits. 

 I had no problem with gnudiff, once I applied the patches tcpatch.dif
 and mypatch.dif. I used TC++ 1.0 (TC 3.0). However, I changed the compile
 flags for diff and saved quite a bit on the executable size. I used
 -O -a -G (optimize, word-align and optimize for speed). The -N option in
 the original makefile adds quite a bit of stack-checking code to the 
 executable.

 The patch distribution, was a much different story. Using TC++ 1.0 and
 the -N option, I could NOT get the program to execute without a
 "Stack Overflow!" error. Luckily, I was able to run the included executable
 (patch.exe) without a problem.

 Ndmake also complained that the macros LARGE and LDFLAGS were not
 defined. Maybe that is part of the problem.

 If anyone knows how to fix the "Stack Overflow!" error in patch, please 
 let me know.

 Thanks,
 -Jeff

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