[Info-vax] If interested with ! Linux style diff and patch on OpenVMS servers

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On Jan 17, 10:39 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 17, 3:12 pm, A famous IT technical writer
>
> <Philippe.vout... at laposte.net> wrote:
> >http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/OpenVMS-Latest_Linux_diff_and_patch_fo...
>
>    "Latest" is a dangerous word to use in writing.  (What's
> new since version 3.0?)

and what's new since patch version 2.6?

Some people may find it more convenient to just install GNV 3.0-1
which comes with

bash$ diff --version
diff (GNU diffutils) 3.0
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/
gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Eggert, Mike Haertel, David Hayes,
Richard Stallman, and Len Tower.
bash$ patch --version
patch 2.6
Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

written by Larry Wall and Paul Eggert
bash$

and some other more recent bits.

I admit the GNU diff (and probably most Unix diffs) can display a nice
context around the differences. And GNV always had a diff utility
which could do that for me. But none of the GNV diff tools can work on
VMS file versions - neither from bash nor from DCL.

Since I could convinced the maintainer to fix a bug in the Alpha
versions, I use diff/slp/output and edit/sum/update.