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RE: CD edition
- To: "'Gary Lawrence Murphy'" <>,
- Subject: RE: CD edition
- From: Gregory Leblanc <>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:17:59 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy []
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:57 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org
> Subject: Re: CD edition
>
>
> >>>>> "G" == Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu> writes:
>
> G> What's wdiff?
>
> It's one of those cool comp.unix.sources utilities no one should be
> without yet no one bundles it; it is almost lost to obscurity.
>
> wdiff is 'diff' but ignores whitespace. It is ideal for creating
> diffs of textfiles where an added CR or TABs swapped for space is
> meaningless. It was originally designed as a utility to work with
> LaTeX files.
Won't diff -b do the same thing, or at least something similar?
Greg
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