Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:15:47 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small handbook error Message-ID: <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007190228330.18954-100000@wysoft.tzo.com>
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Jeff Wyman wrote: > > > I'm a complete idiot who doesn't even know how to make diffs, so I thought > I'd just let everybody know right away instead of figuring out how to > write a diff and holding out on you all for the time that may take - I'm > a slow learner. > The hardest thing about making diffs is to remember which order to put the files. Do you say: diff -c new-file old-file or diff -c old-file new-file ? Alas, neither the man page for diff, nor the man page for patch are that helpful - they give hints about this, but nothing explicit. If someone tells me authoritively what the answer is, maybe I'll submit a send-pr changing the man pages for diff and patch so that they are more explicit on this issue. (I always figure it out by a process of trial and error.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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