Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/15/20:18:30
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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