Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:23:48 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone remember this (diff) program? Message-ID: <199712231317.IAA13053@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <4873.882831166@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, > > someone gave a reference (in the 1993 timeframe) to a graphical diff > > program they had written. > > It also (I think) could do merges, but the saliant feature that I > > remember was that each file had a side-bar, that represented th > > whole file, with parts that differed being shown on orange, with > > lines indicating which unchanged (blue) section corresponded with > > which (blue) section in the side-bar of the other file. > > Sounds a bit like mgdiff, to me. I've stashed a copy for you at > > ftp://freebsd.org/pub/jkh/mgdiff > > Jordan > I remember compiling xdiff for Irix 5.3 a couple years ago, but I don't remember where it's home is. Ah, archie was a wonderful thing. I would guess altavista will show you this beasts home as well if it's still out there. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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