Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/14/03:09:31
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?
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