Re: MS-DOS Version of diff Exhausts Memory

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From: Michael Sanders
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:03

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In article <87kn3yb.westes@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
>Subject: MS-DOS Version of diff Exhausts Memory
>Date: 3 Sep 92 00:07:36 GMT

>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?

The djgpp directory on the simtel mirrors:
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.DJGPP>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
DJDEV108.ZIP  B  778559  920820  Minimum development environment (djgpp)
contains (among much other stuff) a version of diff.
It's also available from its original source:
barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu
in directory:
ftp/pub/msdos/djgpp

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