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Date:	Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:11:26 -0500
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bam wrote:

> I use cygwin 1.5.24-14, I just add the diffutils-2.8.7-1 package and I=20
> have problem using diff.
> Diff never find differences between files and produce no error message=20
> or whatever.
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> I create a file 'a' containing a single letter 'a' and a file 'b'=20
> containing a single letter 'b'.
> The command 'diff a b' produce nothing at all, no message, nothing.
>=20
> The diff command is found by the 'which' command at '/usr/bin/diff' and=
=20
> it has rights to execute for everybody ; the '/usr/bin' directory is in=
=20
> the PATH variable.
>=20
> What can I do ?

Run: cygcheck /usr/bin/diff

My guess is that you are missing a dll or two.
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Ren=E9 Berber


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