[Info-vax] Unix tools on VMS, was: Re: September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-12, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
> In article <nr35v0$vt5$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> 
>> Really simple example: GNU diff is vastly superior to the VMS version.
>> 
>> With GNU diff, as well as having a much more readable unified diff output
>> format, you can also compare differences between two directory trees.
>
>    Right, of course, in gnu diff, you can't read a meaningfull presentation
>    of the differences between two flat files, but who needs that?
>

Bob, are you aware that GNU diff has multiple output formats and
that unified diff format is one of those formats ?

Try it; I find it's output to be a lot more readable than the
output from VMS diff.

Are you by any chance assuming that GNU diff has just the one
output format ? (The default format is not very readable IMHO,
but it is kept as the default for compatibility reasons).

Simon.

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