Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:36:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Marc Singer <elf AT netcom DOT com>
Cc: DJGPP List Alias <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 and Binary Files
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On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Marc Singer wrote:

> Unfortunately, I haven't got an old copy of the source.  It appears
> that DIFF does not respond the way it used to with the switch
> combination
> 
>   diff -an --binary - /tmp/D1aaaa
> 
> where the diff is taken of the standard input and the temporary file.

> So, Eli, did something change in the DIFF source?

To answer that, I need to know what was the version that you compiled and
that worked for you, and under what DJGPP version was that.  (In general,
I didn't touch Diff sources since 2.7.1 was ported, and I'm not aware of
anybody else who did, but a lot has changed in the library.)

Also, if you could tell more about what should be the correct output of
Diff when invoked with the above command line, it might help me 
understand what could go wrong.