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Article #852Re: Change bars in *roff
From: Michael Morrell
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 17:44
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 17:44
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/ hpsal2:comp.text / yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) / 12:42 pm Sep 18, 1989 /
In article <888@paperboy.OSF.ORG> flowers@osf.org (Ken Flowers) writes:
>UNIX has a very simple tool for doing this that is
>available on most machines:
>
> diffmk old.file new.file chbar.file
Beware diffmk.
1. It runs ed, and ed (still) has some annoying hard limits that
you can exceed, causing bizarre results.
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One other thing to watch out for because diffmk uses ed. Any line in the
troff input which consists only of a "." (not uncommon in troff files), might
confuse the output since a period is also used by ed to signify the end of
a changed or appended section.
Michael Morrell
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