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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: Re: diff 8-bit behaviour
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Date: 7 Sep 90 02:08:47 GMT
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lamy@sobeco.com (j.lamy) writes:

>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).  

GNU DIFF 1.14 has context diffs, and compares 8-bit files if you use its -a
option.  Also, it's faster than the BSD and SYSV diffs.