Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!rayssd!d2b From: d2b@rayssd.ray.com (Donald A. Borsay) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Suggested usage of DIFFERENCE for network software updates... Message-ID: <1806@rayssd.ray.com> Date: 5 Feb 88 23:25:34 GMT References: <8801220209.AA16725@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: d2b@rayssd.ray.com (Donald A. Borsay @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI) Reply-To: d2b@rayssd.RAY.COM (Donald A. Borsay) Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI Lines: 26 Summary: Does anyone have the UNIX context difference program on VMS? In article <8801220209.AA16725@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> "TODD AVEN" states the need to have a programatic way of applying source differences that have been posted. He goes on to say: >One of the lesser-known qualifiers for the DIFFERENCE utility is /SLP. >The output of DIFF/SLP is a file of SUM/SLP commands and data, which >can then be fed directly into EDIT/SUM using the /INPUT qualifier (I _think_ >that's the right one). No special editing scripts or manual hacks are >required. As to my surprize, our uVAX with all uVMS "groups" installed has an altered EDIT CLD, which doesn't have the /SLP qualifier. The SUMSLP image is present in SYS$SYSTEM, though. Don't know if this would put a wrench in using SLP... >Everything is tied to a line's >position in the file, so the user must guarantee that he is updating >the correct file. Any comments/workarounds? Yeh, that's why SLP is not suited for this application. From what I understand there was a good context diff program submitted to the Usenet comp.sources group which would do the trick. Anyone port it to VMS? -- Don |Raytheon Company, Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI Borsay |ARPAnet: d2b%rayssd.RAY.COM@a.cs.uiuc.edu |UUCPmail: {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus!raybed2}!rayssd!d2b