Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!olivea!tardis!tymix!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Looking for good context diff program Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 10:31:01 GMT Article-I.D.: terra.JPC.91Jun20103101 References: <1991Jun19.140811.17179@cs.dal.ca> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca's message of 19 Jun 91 14:08:11 GMT In article <1991Jun19.140811.17179@cs.dal.ca> gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) writes: > I'm looking for a very basic utility: A good context diff program. Not > necisarily one which will allow me to generate info to make patch posts > and the like, but a nice diff'r which will allow me to show a few lines of > context before and after differences and use some humanly comprehensable > form of notation. I use GNU diff (I compiled it with TurboC 2.0 Small Code, Large Data), it either works OK or just doesn't work. (Never got wrong results) Works OK with any sensible sized ascii file, and fails (with a warning) if the file is ridiculously big (for the available memory). It can produce context and old style diff's. -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fct.unl.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: ...!mcsun!unl!jpc 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.