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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast))
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: Will someone post a "context diff" program?
Message-ID: <553@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 11:50:12 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.553
Posted: Mon Jan 21 11:50:12 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jan-85 21:07:36 EST
References: <582@afinitc.UUCP> <492@ukma.UUCP> <169@mplvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast))
Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland
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Summary: 

> Article <169@mplvax.UUCP>, from cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
+----------------
| In article <492@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
| >Uuummmm......will somebody please show this person the
| >manual page for diff?
| >
| >Basically, you type "diff -c" and that gives you a context diff.
| >The manual page gives you more.
| >
| 
| Quick reminder that "diff -c" is a property of BSD software, and not ATT,
| best I know.

Yes, and not all of us are lucky enough to have BSD.  Has anyone written
a program from scratch to generate context diffs?  I'm not sure my programming
skills are up to it.

--bsa
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