Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:15:23 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: output from diff --binary
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Richard Dawe wrote:

> 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:

This is the expected behavior.  --binary is *designed* to work like
that, since its output must be compatible with --binary option of the
`patch' utility, and also to work correctly when you want to generate
a diff for binary files (where converting LF to CRLF would be a
disaster).

I would expect DJGPP users to not have any problems with LF-only text
files, since the DJGPP distributions have lots of them anyway.  You
aren't using some defective software like Notepad, are you?