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|    Robert A. Brooks to Lawrence D'Oliveiro    |
|    Re: GNU diff command, was: Re: Fun trick    |
|    22 Jan 25 18:30:05    |
      From: FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com              On 1/22/2025 17:30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       > On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:58:01 +0100, hb0815 wrote:       >       >> GDIFF == "MC GNV$GNU:[USR.BIN]DIFF"       >       > Is there any reason to choose this over       >       > GDIFF == "$GNV$GNU:[USR.BIN]DIFF"              No; both do the same thing and both forms of the syntax will never go away,       even if the "MCR" form is technically unsupported.              I'm not saying it's unsupported, but several aspects of VMS are probably       unsupported       (like EDT), but will never go away.              --        -- Rob              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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