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RE: CD edition



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy [mailto:garym@canada.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:57 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org
> Subject: Re: CD edition
> 
> 
> >>>>> "G" == Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu> writes:
> 
>     G> What's wdiff?
> 
> It's one of those cool comp.unix.sources utilities no one should be
> without yet no one bundles it; it is almost lost to obscurity.
> 
> wdiff is 'diff' but ignores whitespace.  It is ideal for creating
> diffs of textfiles where an added CR or TABs swapped for space is
> meaningless.  It was originally designed as a utility to work with
> LaTeX files.

Won't diff -b do the same thing, or at least something similar?
	Greg


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