Re: No arguments to diff

[Bob Proulx]

Aaron Yoshitake wrote:
> Whenever I run the diff.exe file with no arguments, I get the correct
> messages about not having enough arguments, but then my command prompt stops
> responding, and the program never terminates, making me close it. This is
> quite irritating, since I lose all the information in my command window
> prior to using diff. Is this a known problem, or something wrong with my
> system?

GNU diff itself doesn't suffer from this problem.  But you are talking
about diff.exe which is apparently someone else's compilation and port
of GNU diff to an MS platform.  This sounds to me like a problem in
the port.  Which means that the person who did the port would be the
right person to report this problem to and to make a fix.

Where does this version originate from?  GNU diff shows version
information with --version.

  diff --version

Since GNU doesn't make compiled binaries for MS available (that I know
of) then this must have originated some place else.

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/

  http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html

One of the standard responses when people ask for help on the GNU
lists about an MS version of the tools is to check with the Cygwin
folks because they specialize in porting GNU software to the MS
platform so I will repeat that advice.

  http://cygwin.com

Bob