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From: Niels Jansen <nhjansen@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: docs/36737: Man page/implementation inconsitency of diff -U
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>Number:         36737
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Man page/implementation inconsitency of diff -U
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 04 00:30:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Niels Jansen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD rain.kas.enertel.nl 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 27 11:17:20 CET 2002     root@rain.kas.enertel.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RAIN  i386
>Description:
Man page states that diff -U defaults to a context of 3 lines when a number of lines is not given. Not giving a number of lines however results in the following error:
diff: invalid context length argument

I know diff is contrib software, but i thought i'd send it in anyway.
>How-To-Repeat:
diff -U <fromfile> <tofile>
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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