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

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In article <0f45393b-6dbb-4073-b815-12a181230131 at i25g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>> No.  But this IS a forum for discussing VMS.
>
>   Evidence of _that_ is pretty sparse, most days.
>
>> > Even VMS users occasionally get files from a non VMS
>> > system.
>
>> > I get lots of files from non VMS systems but I've never had
>> > to use 'diff' or 'patch' (the unix variants) on them.
>
>   And I thought that _I_ didn't get out much.  I fairly
>frequently wish to feed freeware change suggestions back to
>those maintaining the stuff, and they almost universally want
>GNU "diff -u" reports (to be fed into GNU "patch", I assume).
>And the recursive feature of GNU "diff" can be very handy for
>comparing large source trees.  (Better than, say, BACKUP
>/COMPARE, whose output can be overly bulky.)
>
>   As I recall, the question was:
>
>      How is this any different from DIFFERENCE/SLP and
>      EDIT/SUM, other than for perhaps the recursive aspects?
>
>So, given that these programs are quite incompatible with GNU
>"diff" and "patch", I'd've thought that the answer was pretty
>obvious.  And yet you still asked.

But my original question was in reply to a single one-line URL posted
here.  When I opened up the debate, there had been no mention of GNU!
If one is not doing GNU freeware then its use/need is rather dubious.

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