From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 22:36:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F8616A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:36:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av6-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av6-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9747D43D1D for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:36:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av6-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 66CA737E49; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:36:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.178]) by av6-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CDB37E45 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:36:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 23E9037E42 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:36:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 55571 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Sep 2004 22:36:36 -0000 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:36:36 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Ben Mesander Message-ID: <20040917223636.GA55502@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Mesander , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <414B40B0.5030809@sitetronics.com> <16715.25678.610402.410860@piglet.timing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16715.25678.610402.410860@piglet.timing.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:36:40 -0000 On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:25:18PM -0600, Ben Mesander wrote: > Devon H. O'Dell writes: > > Does OpenBSD's diffutils include sdiff? If not, this will be broken. > > > > --Devon > > It does not appear to have sdiff. > > I'm a long time UNIX user and have never used sdiff, but I suppose > it's more than likely that everyone else on this mailing list uses > it every day (some law about the perversity of the universe tending > towards a maximum). Most of us actually probably do use sdiff - at least indirectly. mergemaster(8) uses sdiff, and most FreeBSD users use mergemaster when updatimg their systems. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se