On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
According to Orlando Llanes:
Does anybody know of a non-cryptic Diff utility for the PC?
What do you consider "non-cryptic"? And what do you mean with "PC"?
On my PC I use GNU diff exclusively, on Linux or FreeBSD as well as on [Caldera|DR|Novell|MS]-DOS (DJGPP); probably an OS/2 port (EMX) also exists.
GNU diff is very configurable.
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Personally, I use `diff -C2 ...' for personal use (to extract a diff from one source and patch it back into another), because it's fairly easy to read, and, more important, easy to edit.
For distribution, I prefer `diff -u ...' because of the wide acceptance of the unidiff format. Remember: a diff is worth nothing if people can't patch it in because you use some exotic utility.
JJ
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