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   Message 262,270 of 264,096   
   Craig A. Berry to Simon Clubley   
   Re: GNU diff command, was: Re: Fun trick   
   17 Jan 25 08:07:23   
   
   From: craigberry@nospam.mac.com   
      
   On 1/17/25 7:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > On 2025-01-13, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >> On 1/9/2025 8:01 AM, hb0815 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> $ gdiff -ub lib.pas-orig lib.pas   
   >>   
   >>> $ gdiff -ub lib.for-orig lib.for   
   >>   
   >> For those that do not speak diffish:   
   >>   
   >   
   > Then those people would benefit from learning it IMHO.   
   >   
   > It is far, far, superior to VMS DIFF, especially in the unified diff format   
   > used in the above command. If the licence allows it, then it would be an   
   > excellent addition to standard VMS, maybe invoked as a new qualifier on the   
   > VMS DIFF command.   
      
   There are BSD implementations that have the usual Berkeley license:   
      
   https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.bin/diff   
      
   Don't know about the license but git is available and it should be   
   possible to get diffs outside a repository with "git diff --noindex".   
   That said, I tried it just now and couldn't get it to work.   
      
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