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- # KingFisher 2.0 and other similar tools.
-
- .name
- diffutils
- .fullname
- GNU diff, diff3, sdiff and cmp utilities
- .type
- Programmer Tool
- .short
- Diff & cmp utils, Amiga binary + docs
- .description
- This directory contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities.
- Their features are a superset of the Unix features and they are
- significantly faster. cmp has been moved here from the GNU textutils.
-
- Computer users often find occasion to ask how two files differ.
- Perhaps one file is a newer version of the other file. Or maybe the
- two files started out as identical copies but were changed by
- different people.
-
- You can use the diff command to show differences between two files, or
- each corresponding file in two directories. diff outputs differences
- between files line by line in any of several formats, selectable by
- command line options. This set of differences is often called a diff
- or patch. For files that are identical, diff normally produces no
- output; for binary (non-text) files, diff normally reports only that
- they are different.
-
- You can use the cmp command to show the offsets and line numbers where
- two files differ. Cmp can also show all the characters that differ
- between the two files, side by side.
-
- You can use the diff3 command to show differences among three files.
- When two people have made independent changes to a common original,
- diff3 can report the differences between the original and the two
- changed versions, and can produce a merged file that contains both
- persons' changes together with warnings about conflicts.
-
- You can use the sdiff command to merge two files interactively.
-
- You can use the set of differences produced by diff to distribute
- updates to text files (such as program source code) to other people.
- This method is especially useful when the differences are small
- compared to the complete files. Given diff output, you can use the
- patch program to update, or patch, a copy of the file. If you think
- of diff as subtracting one file from another to produce their
- difference, you can think of patch as adding the difference to one
- file to reproduce the other.
-
- This archive contains the Amiga binaries and documentation.
- .version
- 2.6
- .author
- Free Software Foundation
- et. al.
- .requirements
- Binaries require ixemul.library.
- .distribution
- GNU Public License
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
-