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(AC_INIT, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Version 2.7.7.

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Reformat for imminent 2.8 release.
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Paul Eggert 2002-01-24 20:16:38 +00:00
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User-visible changes in test version 2.7.6:
* New diff3 and sdiff option: --diff-program=PROGRAM.
* The test-version environment variables DIFF_OPTIONS and DIFF_PROGRAM
have been withdrawn, as they caused compatibility problems.
You can use aliases or shell script wrappers instead.
Other user-visible changes since version 2.7:
User-visible changes in test version 2.7.7:
* cmp now supports trailing operands SKIP1 and SKIP2, like BSD cmp.
* cmp -i or --ignore-initial now accepts SKIP1:SKIP2 option value.
@ -14,7 +7,7 @@ Other user-visible changes since version 2.7:
use -b or --print-bytes instead.
* cmp now outputs "byte" rather than "char" outside the POSIX locale.
* cmp -l's index column width now autoadjusts to fit larger (or smaller) files.
* diff uses ISO 8601 format for output times (e.g. "2001-11-23
* diff uses ISO 8601 style time stamps for output times (e.g. "2001-11-23
16:44:36.875702460 -0800") unless in the C or POSIX locale.
* diff's -I and -F options use the regexp syntax of grep, not of Emacs.
* New diff and sdiff options:
@ -24,17 +17,17 @@ Other user-visible changes since version 2.7:
--from-file=FILE, --to-file=FILE
--ignore-file-name-case
--no-ignore-file-name-case
* New diff3 and sdiff option:
--diff-program=PROGRAM
* diff file name exclusion is now case insensitive when file name case
is being ignored.
* Recursive diffs now sort file names according to the LC_COLLATE locale
category, instead of using native byte comparison.
* Diff printf specs can now use the 0 and ' flags.
* Diff printf specs can now use the "0" and "'" flags.
* Later, conflicting diff options now silently override earlier ones.
For example, `diff -c -u' is now equivalent to `diff -u'.
* The summary output of diff now notes whether regular files are executable.
* The new sdiff interactive command `ed' precedes each version with a header.
* New diff3 and sdiff option:
--diff-program=PROGRAM
* On 64-bit hosts, files larger than 2 GB can be compared.
* Some internationalization support has been added.
Some diagnostics have been reworded slightly for consistency.
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User-visible changes in version 2.7:
* New diff option: --binary (useful only on non-Posix hosts)
* New diff option: --binary (useful only on non-POSIX hosts)
* diff -b and -w now ignore line incompleteness; -B no longer does this.
* cmp -c now uses locale to decide which output characters to quote.
* Help and version messages are reorganized.
@ -112,8 +105,8 @@ User-visible changes in version 2.4:
* The format spec %0 introduced in version 2.1 has been removed, since it
is incompatible with printf specs like %02d. To represent a null char,
use %c'\0' instead.
* cmp and diff now conform to Posix.2 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993)
if the underlying system conforms to Posix:
* cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.2-1992 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993)
if the underlying system conforms to POSIX:
- Some messages' wordings are changed in minor ways.
- ``White space'' is now whatever C's `isspace' says it is.
- When comparing directories, if `diff' finds a file that is not a regular
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* Add long-named equivalents for other diff3 options.
* diff options -F (--show-function-line) and -I (--ignore-matching-lines)
can now be given more than once.
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