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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: diff for MSDOS?
Message-ID: <1844@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 20:20:39 GMT
References: <38500001@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> 
> Does anyone out there have a program for the IBM PC which can incorporate
> diffs into source files? Quite a few of the larger programs which are
> distributed on the Net often have diffs posted for them. This is fine for
> Unix types but what about those of us who use MSDOS? Does such a program
> exist for the PC, either PD or commercial?
>     cheers,
>         Andrew
> 
I don't have such a program, but I can suggest a technique: EDLIN (you 
remember EDLIN, it came on the DOS distribution disk) will accept commands
from stdin.  With a little thought, it should be possible to build a 
program to convert the output of diff into input to EDLIN.

Clayton E. Cramer