From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 14:16:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFE01065677 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: from web57004.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web57004.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62A918FC19 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 5039 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Sep 2008 14:16:17 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=2wHrtwu1Tr4PoyWgDIFMoDLi//RDKv7wEIA9tByQPZ6AiSHKNcDzBaYQMdL/x0aHLcf+uksTb2RnDIGZVQuOyQSM9JUDIm1kmgqbFlBBx0aECwW+vz5cqhp6doMmYyHN19r/XqKd5bY5W3mdczxm9fNZJd00kMOz6/Rr//m3hNc=; X-YMail-OSG: tP26phMVM1lsd20iwVJ7nsHsZsg4r2IfH5t.b0DeshchvmIT7NpO55twpnJywb4mjKT_MFhqVNe7f7aeeBYY8NVKgz4ypH7QqibHBfK3G6PZXwViN1n.rsdCFtarO8yTcfxMuSKvUn5WZzcMNqc37uTdLuQ2wy_TQrl1EQlyGnoLNzU- Received: from [220.255.7.237] by web57004.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:16:17 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:16:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Unga To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <873547.5011.qm@web57004.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Subject: Why not GNU cmp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: unga888@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:16:18 -0000 Hi all I have noted FreeBSD uses GNU diff, GNU diff3 and GNU sdiff. Why FreeBSD uses its own version of cmp? why not use GNU cmp? Is the GNU cmp not compatible with FreeBSD? Kind regards Unga