Afloyd.117 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!rabbit!npois!harpo!floyd!trb Tue Mar 2 10:56:11 1982 posting bug fixes with diffs People often submit bug fixes over the net. These are usually diffs to show what the bug fixes are. Diff has a -e option which produces an ed script to create the new file from the old file. IF you have a good copy of the old file, then these ed scripts should be a GREAT way to transmit fixes, but nobody uses them. You could include an ls -l and a checksum of the files (before and after, with sccs cruft stripped) to ensure that you won... How about it? (This is an addition to the human readable diffs, not a replacement.) Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.