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Re: Change bars in *roff

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From: Phil Hughes
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1989 19:52
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In article <9262@blia.BLI.COM>, peterw@blia.BLI.COM (Peter Wisnovsky) writes:
> I am working on some man pages and would like to be able to make
> copies of them, edit them and print them out with change bars for
> review. Does anyone know of a program that highlites the changes
> between two *roff files? (Incidentally, I don't have ftp access to
> anywhere...)

According to my handy-dandy SSC UNIX System 5 Pocket Reference:

   DIFFMK - Build 'Change Mark' File for n/troff
   % diffmk old new change
   Arguments:
      old     original file
      new     updated file
      change  change mark input for n/troff

This comes with the Text Processing system.
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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Subject: Re: Change bars in *roff
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