From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Bug in DJGPP port of diff?
Date: 19 Jun 1998 13:57:07 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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I have noticed that the DJGPP-port of GNU diff behaves very strange
when files with/without CR's are used:

bash$ printf "abc\n" > file1
bash$ od -t x1 file1
0000000 61 62 63 0d 0a
0000005
bash$ printf "abc\r\n" > file2
bash$ od -t x1 file2
0000000 61 62 63 0d 0d 0a
0000006
bash$ diff file1 file2
bash$ diff -q file1 file2
Files file1 and file2 differ
bash$ diff -s file1 file2
Files file1 and file2 are identical

Especially the last lines are very entertaining: identical files
differ! I could understand both answers, but not both at once.

Is this a bug or have I missed some documentation?

Hope this helps.
-- 
Groeten, Michel.        http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
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