From: utzoo!decvax!duke!ucf-cs!tim
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: diff alg ref query
Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.726
Posted: Mon Aug  2 16:49:14 1982
Received: Wed Aug  4 03:00:29 1982


	To: tim
	Subject: diff algorithm

	Do you think that you could ask on the net if anyone
	knows of the original reference on the algorithm that
	diff uses ?  The source says that it is "due to Harold
	Stone" but gives no other references.  I thought I
	remembered a CACM number in source but I was wrong -
	the CACM # was for where they used a shellsort.
	I could check in the libarary using the name Stone
	but I thought it might be easier to ask on the net
	if you think thats reasonable.  The reason I am
	interested in the algorithm is that I am unhappy
	with the source compare program I have now and
	would like to write a better one but the algorithm
	is not immediately apparent when reading the source for
	diffreg.c.  Let me know what you think.

Can anybody give an answer here?

			Tim Curry
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