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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:14:04 -0400
From:      Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   OpenBSD sdiff Question
Message-ID:  <20080314231404.GB99765@scruffy.exit2shell.com>

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Greetings-

I am currently working on replacing the GNU version of sdiff with a version
of sdiff that was released into the public domain and is used in OpenBSD

Xin LI has been guiding me along with the project and he suggested I post
here to see what you guys think.

I achieve 100% compatability with the GNU version, I need to add
-v/--version and the issue I ran into is that since this program would
become part of the base os, what exactly should be displayed.

My idea is to simply print __FreeBSD_version but I am open to other
suggestions.

For reference:
$ sdiff -v
sdiff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7
Written by Thomas Lord.

Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

And my port from OpenBSD:
$ ./sdiff -v
sdiff (BSD diffutils) 602111
Written by Raymond Lai.

This work has been released into the public domain.

--
Steven Kreuzer
http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer



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