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From: trb@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: How do you proofread electronically?
Message-ID: <636@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 17:30:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 17:30:35 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 05:52:57 EST
References:  <22428@lanl.ARPA>
Reply-To: trb@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA
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In article <22428@lanl.ARPA> djw@lanl.ARPA writes:

> I suggested that he "diff" the files and check the
> results but he said that that doesn't give him a feel for the context;
> and besides, that's too much trouble...
> what tools are
> available on a plain vanilla UNIX(tm) system?  Avoiding the issue has
> never been my style.  But if I am truly making his work inordinately
> hard, then I am wrong.  What else could I have done?

If you call Sys III or SysVr2 a vanilla system, then sdiff might be
the answer to your troubles.  It diffs two files side by side on the
page.  Puts | in between for changed lines, > for added lines, < for
removed lines.  You might want to use fmt or some other cheap hack to
make the lines 60 characters long, so the side by side output can fit
on a 132 column page.  Do what suits your taste.

You say you only have 4.2bsd?  Hey Bunky, that's too bad.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Masscomp  Westford, MA   (617) 692-6200 x274