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Re: Gnu diff and literature references

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From: Scott E. Schwartz
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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