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Article #75517Re: Gnu diff and literature references
From: Scott E. Schwartz
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 03:48
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 03:48
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In article <DRW.90Jul22212107@zermelo.mit.edu> drw@zermelo.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes: I recently unpacked and tested Gnu diff, and it's quite a lot faster than Sun's diff. However, the documentation gives a reference to an article in Comm. of the ACM that describes the algorithm used. Unfortunately, CACM is not free information, and so the reference will have to be expunged. Unfortunately, that will make the code incomprehensible, unless FSF details someone to write a complete description of the algorithm. My copy of that issue is at home now, but from another issue of CACM: "General permission to republish, but not for profit, all or part of this material is granted provided that ACM's copyright notice is given and that reference is made to the publication, to its date of issue, and to the the reprinting privileges were granded by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery." If you don't like that, write away and get some tech reports instead.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,a3be55a2b0a6dd37 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-07-23 01:16:55 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!seismo!ukma!psuvax1!news From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Gnu diff and literature references Message-ID: <Fn&_k341@cs.psu.edu> Date: 23 Jul 90 03:48:03 GMT References: <DRW.90Jul22212107@zermelo.mit.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: gnu Organization: Pennsylvania State University, computer science Lines: 20 Posted: Mon Jul 23 04:48:03 1990 In-Reply-To: drw@zermelo.mit.edu's message of 23 Jul 90 04:21:07 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: groucho.cs.psu.edu