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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: diff 8-bit behaviour
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Date: 30 Aug 90 17:18:27 GMT
References: <1990Aug29.234042.6557@sobeco.com>
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In article <1990Aug29.234042.6557@sobeco.com> lamy@sobeco.com (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
>"diff" thinks that any file that contains my name properly spelled is
>a binary file (as it does for any file that has any character with
>the 8th bit turned on).  This sort of cramps my style when I need to
>diff two French documents...

The BSD versions of commands (in the /bsd43/bin tree) are *not* 8-bit-clean;
the System V versions are.  On extended-character-set files, use /bin/diff,
not /bsd43/bin/diff.
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