Re: No arguments to diff

[Aaron Yoshitake]

I'm sorry, running diff --help gave a message that says to report any bugs
to this email. I downloaded this port of diff from sourcefourge <
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm>, which I thought to
be GNU.
Anyway, diff --version gives this:

C:\Documents and Settings\ayoshitake>diff --version
diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7
Written by Paul Eggert, Mike Haertel, David Hayes,
Richard Stallman, and Len Tower.

Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE


Thanks for your time, and sorry for the mistake.

-Aaron



On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
>