Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 09:52:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: JJ Keijser <jjk AT lbvrtda DOT logica DOT com>, Marc Singer <elf AT netcom DOT com>
Cc: Christopher Heng <cyfheng AT singnet DOT com DOT sg>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RCS5.7 DOS and binary files
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On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, JJ Keijser wrote:

> from some patches, I believe). The UNIX version works beautifully and it uses 
> the same Diff utils (v2.7); The UNIX version passes 
> 	diff -an
> to /usr/local/bin/diff.

Unix doesn't distinguish between binary and text files.  I think the 
relevant portions of Diff that deal with binary files don't get compiled 
at all on Unix.

> Also, with the DJGPP diff I get
> 	Binary files bin1 and bin2 differ
> when I type
> 	diff -n bin1 bin2
> while the Unix diff (exact same command line) gives me a long long list of 
> differences...

That is expected, see above.  I guess this means that RCS doesn't support 
binary files on MS-DOS yet.  Marc?