Comparing files.

[Ben Duncan]

I dunno, the MAN with everything was Slackware 12.2. The MAN with
"see info" was Slackware 13.  Maybe they started using Debian packages ?

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> That had to be a really ancient version of diff if its man page was
> still pointing you to the info page.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ben Duncan <bend at linux4ms.net> wrote:
>> Lonnie pointed out the the -q will do what I wanted.
>>
>> Strange did a man on diff on the machine I was going to use
>> and it had an abbreviated (compared to this one) man page of diff.
>> The bottom said "see info diff for more options ". Oh well
>> go figure ..
>>
>>
>>
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> On Friday 26 March 2010, Ben Duncan wrote:
>>>> diff with -s says they are identical, when they are , but shows
>>>> all the different lines when not.
>>>>
> 
> 


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