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From: wallace@ynotme.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CR/LF issues
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.175234.15474@engage.enet.dec.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 17:42:09 GMT
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In article <4865@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes...
>This brings me to another question:
> 
>I am porting the GNU diff(3) programs and now I come to an intersting
>problem: What to do when comparing two files that differ only in the CR?
			...
>   separator. And there is no way to indicate the ABSENCE of the CR.
The VMS difference program shows "<CR>" (ie: 4 ascii characters) at the end of
the lines if one file has them and the other doesn't.

>GNU diff has a -a (ASCII) option. I think I will consider the files the
>same if -a is given, and different otherwise. But still the above mentioned
Most definitly have a switch to disable this feature. The VMS utility does not
and it is a real pain. Yes I want to be able to find out if the files have
different line terminators, but once I know that I want to see the diff's
excluding the terminators (which would be the whole file of course).

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