On Sunday 27 June 2004 17:40, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote: > > diff - 2.7 -> 2.8.1 > > Should be painless (I think) and I dont see why should we keep the old > > version http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/diffutils.html > > Newer versions of diff change some of the formatting information, > which can break scripts. Just as newer scripts might break because they assume diff output from the current version. The interesting question would be if this is considered a bug by the GNU diff developers. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi_at_freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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