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   Simon Clubley to Robert A. Brooks   
   Re: GNU diff command, was: Re: Fun trick   
   24 Jan 25 13:05:11   
   
   From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-01-22, Robert A. Brooks  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   $ set response/mode=good_natured   
      
   TECO went away...   
      
   Simon.   
      
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