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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <nr6tau$haq$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2016-09-12, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
>> In article <nr35v0$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 ?

   Yes, I use many of them on a daily basis.  unified is one I find
   particularly worhtless as a human interface.