Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CASTOR.USC.EDU!blarson From: blarson@CASTOR.USC.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc Subject: Submission for comp-sys-m68k-pc Message-ID: <8705290706.AA02624@castor.usc.edu> Date: Fri, 29-May-87 03:06:32 EDT Article-I.D.: castor.8705290706.AA02624 Posted: Fri May 29 03:06:32 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 08:44:14 EDT Sender: mwm@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 47 Approved: info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Path: castor.usc.edu!blarson From: blarson@castor.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc Subject: Re: os-9 Message-ID: <2406@castor.usc.edu> Date: 29 May 87 07:06:31 GMT References: Reply-To: blarson@castor.usc.edu.UUCP (Bob Larson) Distribution: world Organization: USC AIS, Los Angeles Lines: 35 In article PEPRBV@CFAAMP.BITNET (Bob Babcock) writes: >>> Continuing a discussion of the availability of software for OS-9 ... >>> Well, OS-9 has a comparison utility... > >Unless it's been enhanced, that's another sore point. Take 2 >source files which differ only by the addition of a blank line, >and cmp will spit out every byte past that point as a difference >because it only does a byte-by-byte comparison. cmp is made for comparing binary files. If you want to compare text files, use a tool designed for the job. I recomend the version of diff I uploaded to compuserve (utilities section, downloaded by 75126,723) and just sent to the users group, but there is also a program named tcmp available from the users group. (Diff has two problems: memory hungry and slow. The output is very close to the unix diff program, and can be fed to patch.) Is there enough demand for it to make it worth posting? My main problem with os9 is the bugs I find, but this doesn't differ much from any other operating system/compiler that I have used. (On some systems the documented misfeatures exceed the pain of the bugs: Who could put up with a system that has 16 bit addresses for some instructions, 18 bit for others, and does bank swapping based on the 17th and 18th address bits to claim a 1 megabyte address range? (for those fortunate enough to not know the architectual bogosity, it's known as the intel 80x86 family.)) At least at microware there is someone there who listens to my complaints and tries to get the bugs fixed for the next release. -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Usc-Ecl.Arpa Uucp: (several backbone sites)!sdcrdcf!usc-oberon!castor.usc.edu!blarson seismo!cit-vax!usc-oberon!castor.usc.edu!blarson