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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:52:16 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: output from diff --binary
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Hello.

Jeff Williams wrote:
<snip>
> It seems that the output produced by the `--binary' switch
> lacks a terminal \n.  Can others confirm this behavior?  (Interestingly,
> I do not see the problem if I redirect the output from the scripts.)

I also have seen this behaviour when comparing two directory trees:

diff -s --binary -r dir1 dir2

IIRC. It only seems to do a linefeed, no carriage return on lines like "x
and y are identical", so you get staggered lines:

x and y are identical
                     a and b are identical
...etc...

I haven't tried '--binary' without these switches. The output is OK after
redirection.

This is from diff from diffutils 2.7.1 - here's the file info:

-rwxrwxr-x   1 root     dosusers   134656 Oct 19  1996
/mnt/dose/djgpp/bin/diff.exe*

HTH in diagnosing the problem.

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