From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!gb
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: diff alg ref query
Article-I.D.: unc.3793
Posted: Mon Aug  9 15:15:26 1982
Received: Tue Aug 10 03:53:08 1982


"A Technique for Isolating Differences Between Files" by Paul Heckel in the
April 1978 issue of CACM has an algorithm for diff'ing that he claims is
better than the Hunt McIlroy algorithm.  It certainly looks simple enough
and runs in linear time.