Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site masscomp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!masscomp!trb 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 Article-I.D.: masscomp.636 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 Lines: 20 Summary: 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