Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!mailrus!um-math!jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu From: jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jeremy Teitelbaum) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: diffs Message-ID: <499@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 16:53:52 GMT Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Reply-To: jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jeremy Teitelbaum) Organization: Mathematics Dept., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lines: 20 Dear Gnus of the world, Corrections to programs on the net are generally posted in a special format with *** and ---, which I have seen referred to as "context diffs." Forgive my naivete, but: 1. How are these produced? 2. Is there an automatic procedure for incorporating changes described in this way into files? Thanks for your help. -- Jeremy Teitelbaum Math Dept. U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. teitelbaum@ub.cc.umich.edu OR jeremy@math.lsa.umich.edu