From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Bug in DJGPP port of diff? Date: 23 Jun 1998 11:09:55 GMT Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Message-ID: <6mo2e3$78p$1@star.cs.vu.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sloep03.cs.vu.nl Lines: 32 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: > > identical files > > differ! I could understand both answers, but not both at once. > You can hardly blame `diff' for the brain-damage of Microsoft-style > text vs. binary files hassles. What `diff' tries very hard to do is > to provide useful results and leave you (and me) sane in all possible > cases, and still report accurate output. I just thought that `diff' contradicted itself. But I now understand, because: > But -q > implies binary reads, so the files compare different when you use -q > (`cmp' would say that also). Ah, I already thought so! I just didn't read the docs well enough I think (*blush*). > > Is this a bug or have I missed some documentation? > You have missed a prolonged description of the ``binary files'' issue > in the `diff' manual. Look it up by typing this from the DOS prompt: > info diff Comparison Binary Thanks. -- Groeten, Michel. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter ____________ \ /====\ / "You know, Beavis, you need things that suck, \/ \/ to have things that are cool", Butt-Head.