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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 07:40:06 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, David Balažic!

> It is irrelevant how it is implemented. The command means "compare the
> output of those two commands" and the only correct result is "they
> differ on byte 5".

> It is clearly a bug.

I wouldn't be so hastily jumping to conclusions, if I were you.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 07:39:06

Sorry for my terrible english...