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Re: diff --brief and --binary
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: diff --brief and --binary |
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Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:54:10 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden (Bob Proulx)
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:28:11 -0600
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> The language saying forcing a binary comparison is colloquial in
> meaning and has little to do with the MS definition of binary/text.
Nevertheless, on DOS and Windows systems, Diff does switch its I/O to
binary mode when it thinks (or is told) that the files being compared
are binary files.