Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: diffmk in Perl (was Re: v18i018: Generate changebars in ?roff docs using patch) Summary: it is coming Message-ID: <4235@omepd.UUCP> Date: 23 Mar 89 21:02:20 GMT References: <1554@papaya.bbn.com> Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Followup-To: comp.sources.unix Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 23 Supersedes: <4234@omepd.UUCP> In-reply-to: rsalz@uunet.uu.net (Rich Salz) In article <1554@papaya.bbn.com>, rsalz@uunet (Rich Salz) writes: | Submitted-by: rap@ardent.com (Rob Peck) | Posting-number: Volume 18, Issue 18 | Archive-name: changebar | | [ This is the best of the several of these that I've seen. -r$ ] In private mail, Rich has stated that my version of 'diffmk' in Perl is "outrageous". It uses a simple massaging of the output of 'diff -D' (BSD-style) to create the whole shebang, and has user-selectable marks for "add", "delete", and "change". In only 100 lines of perl code! Watch for it in comp.sources.misc... Randal "just a hacker" Schwartz -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. ARPA: <@intel-iwarp.arpa:merlyn@intelob> (fastest!) MX-Internet: UUCP: ...[!uunet]!tektronix!biin!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer! Cute quote: "Welcome to Oregon... home of the California Raisins!"