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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'sq uite 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.

See the book "A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller for a very thorough
discussion of that very algorithm, amongst other things. You may of course
choose to immediately forget everything you read in that book, because the
information (at least some peculiar manifestation of that information)
contained therein is not free. It is a darn useful book though, and you
will find it most helpful in your future tools development. Of course, some
of us will secretly know any or all tools you develop from thereon may not
always contain free information, because you are now contaminated with
copyrighted information, or a derivation thereof. Paradoxically, nobody
can prove such derivation, and also paradoxically, people who have not
read this article will think that any information contained in your
programs is free, unless you cite your sources. If you *do* cite your
sources, it is probable that some of them will immediately recognize this
to be a case of utilizing unfree-information, and will ignore your work.
Others will probably be interested in those very sources, in the hope they
may learn something. They too will become unknowing pawns in the game of
information misuse. Oh well, I guess it is just safer that you did *not*
see that book. ;-)

oz
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