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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:36:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing diff's default output format 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912291035450.48947-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991229172759.1847E1CCF@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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> 
> Typical POSIX - Ambiguous as usual.

You mean "oracular" don't you? :-)

> that context diffs would fit in there depending on who is doing the
> conversion - the minimum required for most humans to do a "conversion" is
> -c format, see the PR database for examples.
> 
> Anyway, as much as I'd love to change the default, I'm sure somebody
> somewhere will have something broken and/or take offence.

By all means change the default (in your environment). Under what theory
of operation are you convinced that changing the default for everyone is
such a wonderful thing?







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