please do your diffs right

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#335

From: Bruce Nemnich
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1984 07:03

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Some people post diffs of fixes and enhancements with the file order
backwards; they tell one how to get the original file from the modified
version.  

Such diffs are not only confusing to humans, they are useless for
automatic updating with the recently posted patch utility.

Please do the diffs in the correct order, e.g., 'diff -c old new'.
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--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
  ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn@mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce@godot.arpa

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Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.unix-wizards
Subject: please do your diffs right
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 02:03:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 02:03:04 1984
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