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From: lamy@sobeco.com (j.lamy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: diff 8-bit behaviour
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.220013.25777@sobeco.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 22:00:13 GMT
References: <1990Aug29.234042.6557@sobeco.com> <41203@mips.mips.COM>
Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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In <41203@mips.mips.COM> rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:

>			[...] On extended-character-set files, use /bin/diff,
>not /bsd43/bin/diff.

Not quite.  /bin/diff lacks context diffs, which I'd deem essential (esp. for
generating patches, rcsdiff et al. in a Latin1-ish environment).  

I appreciate very much the effort towards 8-bit cleanliness on the sys V side,
and the fact that the 4.50 BSD environment has shown itself to be quite
complete so far.  I just hope worthwhile pieces of the BSD stuff get cleaned
up too and not simply written off as hopeless junk, or that (SVR4 helping)
the functionality migrates into the mainstream versions.