Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 20:07:54 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <186630776698.20020517200754@familiehaase.de> To: Eric Blake CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: problem with diffutils In-Reply-To: <3CE53263.C09B6109@email.byu.edu> References: <3CE53263.C09B6109@email.byu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric schrieb: > Is anyone else experiencing this? Today I updated to the new > diffutils-2.8.1-1, and now I can't perform diff on files: > $ echo line 1 > a.txt > $ echo line 2 >> a.txt > $ echo line 2 >> b.txt > $ echo line 3 >> b.txt > $ cat a.txt b.txt > line 1 > line 2 > line 2 > line 3 > $ diff a.txt b.txt > diff: a.txt: Invalid argument > $ diff -- a.txt b.txt > diff: a.txt: Invalid argument > As the same version of diff is working fine on my Linux box, I suspect > there is a cygwin-related bug. This is the old version (diff): $ diff a.txt b.txt 1d0 < line 1 2a2 > line 3 This is the latest version (diffutils): $ diff a.txt b.txt 1d0 < line 1 2a2 > line 3 Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/