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From: tima@agora.rain.com (Tim Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Probs. with GNUDIFF/GNURCS for MESSY-DOS and ELVIS
Keywords: DOS, Brain dead memory, globbing
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.152635.1112@agora.rain.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 15:26:35 GMT
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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I've been beating on the DOSRCS stuff that came through here awhile back
and I appear to be having a couple problems. 

1) gnudiff (I have version 1.14 ported to turbo c) dies on files that are
still pretty small. I don't think that diff'ing a file that is 70000 bytes
to be a real stretch of the imagination, but I geuss it is.

2) I have approx 100 or so source files, and when I checked out about 7 or
so and did an 'rlog -L *.c' to see if rlog knew which ones were out, it died
ungracefully after spitting out most of the appropriate information. 

I would like to start using UNIX flavoured tools, but I can't afford MKS!
I really wish that I could! $595 for the programmers platform is probably
the steal of the century, but it's about $400 out of my current price range.
I'm trying to get out of credit card debt... Anyway, has anybody
beat on gnudiff and/or RCS to get it to work a bit better in the MESSY-DOS
environment?

Oh ya, has someone fixed ELVIS so that it leaves the colors alone when it
exits? Has someone fixed the screen driver so that it is faster? I mean a 
full screen re-paint should NOT drop my 386/20 to it's knees. How 'bout 
unlimited file size???

tima@agora.rain.com

Help stamp out programs that use environment variables in our lifetime.
Brief is the perfect example of how NOT to design a program w/respect to this.
Any program that leaves a computer in a different state than when it started
should be destroyed.