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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Context diffs in diff (was grep replacement)
Summary: There is a different diffc available.
Message-ID: <163@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 17:11:41 GMT
References: <144@insyte.UUCP> <3350@phri.UUCP> <8080@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2418@cxsea.UUCP>
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <2418@cxsea.UUCP>, blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
> In general I agree, the problem I have using diffc (I'm running System V
> and use diffc quite regularly) is that one of it's arguments can't be
> stdin.

There is a version of diffc which will produce a context diff using
stdin as one file.  Or at least it did the last time I checked.  It
was posted late last fall or winter and should be in Volume 13 or 14
of the comp.unix.sources archive.

- John.
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