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From: jjk AT lbvrtda DOT logica DOT com (JJ Keijser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RCS5.7 DOS and binary files
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 09:47:53 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960414094700 DOT 1640X-100000 AT is>,
   Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>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?

umm, I did try
 	diff --binary -n bin1 bin2  
as well and that also did not work...

JJ


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