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Re: MS-DOS Version of diff Exhausts Memory

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From: George Jetson
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 15:58
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In article <87kn3yb.westes@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Using the MS-DOS version of diff 1.15, I occasionally get an error
>message reporting that memory has been exhausted (this on a machine that
>has 15 megs of extended memory).  Do other users of the
>MS-DOS version get the same error?  Can someone point me to an ftp site
>for a version of diff that has been made to work with VCPI, DPMI, or EMS
>under MS-DOS?

This tells us nothing about which specific version of diff you are using.
Who is it from? Who compiled it? Which compiler? etc.

Anyway, get the DIFF that comes with DJGPP.  It seems to have no memory limits.

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From: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
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