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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Tool -flag considered harmful (was: grep replacement)
Message-ID: <8104@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 16 Jun 88 09:23:30 GMT
References: <16186@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <16186@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>And files tend to be different more often than the same.

But are the files fed to "cmp" usually different?  I would guess
that they aren't, judging by the uses of "cmp" that I typically
run into.