RE: Diff information

RE: Diff information

[guenter strubinsky]

Most if not all text files in cygwin and Linux/Unix are -not surprisingly-
in the unix/linux text format which means that as opposed to windooze a line
is terminated with a single LF, apple uses a single CR and win uses CR/LF.
Notepad does not understand the unix format and shows all text on one line.

Use vim aka vi or wordpad or one of the excellent open source programmers-
editors like JEdit ( sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/ ) and you will be able
to decipher the textiles.

guenter

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> Of Editor of PoliSource
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 September, 2003 23:50
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Diff information
> 
> I was looking for instructions on how to use the diff tools that come with
> cygwin, but all I could find is a short description of diffutils during
> setup, and a "ldesc" in the file setup.ini, but setup.ini opened in
> Notepad,
> which doesn't seem like the correct program for easy reading of that file.
> Could someone tell me how to properly view the data, including the long
> descriptions, in setup.ini, or point me to a tutorial on using the diff
> tools in cygwin?
> 
> Thanks,
> Barry
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Re: Diff information

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:50:26AM +0000, Editor of PoliSource wrote:
>I was looking for instructions on how to use the diff tools that come with 
>cygwin, but all I could find is a short description of diffutils during 
>setup, and a "ldesc" in the file setup.ini, but setup.ini opened in 
>Notepad, which doesn't seem like the correct program for easy reading of 
>that file. Could someone tell me how to properly view the data, including 
>the long descriptions, in setup.ini, or point me to a tutorial on using the 
>diff tools in cygwin?

man diff
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Diff information

[Editor of PoliSource]

I was looking for instructions on how to use the diff tools that come with 
cygwin, but all I could find is a short description of diffutils during 
setup, and a "ldesc" in the file setup.ini, but setup.ini opened in Notepad, 
which doesn't seem like the correct program for easy reading of that file. 
Could someone tell me how to properly view the data, including the long 
descriptions, in setup.ini, or point me to a tutorial on using the diff 
tools in cygwin?

Thanks,
Barry

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Re: Diff information

[Editor of PoliSource]

>Or, you could just install it.  setup.exe does not install everything by 
>default.

The list of programs that I got during my update yesterday was too long to 
read through, and there was nothing under man. Just now, I tried the "Search 
Package List" tool and searched for "man", which returned 511 results, but 
searching for "man pages" returned cygwin-doc at the top of the list. 
Installing with the "Bi..." box checked didn't work, but then I tried with 
"Bi..." and "Sr..." checked, and it worked.

Thanks,
Barry

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Re: Diff information

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:55:55PM +0000, Editor of PoliSource wrote:
>>General help in bash, for installed (cygwin/Linux/GNU) commands:
>>
>>$ help <bash-internal command>
>>$ info <installed command>
>>$ man <installed command>
>
>Help and info work, but man still doesn't. I guess I don't need it though.

Or, you could just install it.  setup.exe does not install everything by default.

cgf

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RE: Diff information

[Editor of PoliSource]

>General help in bash, for installed (cygwin/Linux/GNU) commands:
>
>$ help <bash-internal command>
>$ info <installed command>
>$ man <installed command>

Help and info work, but man still doesn't. I guess I don't need it though.

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Re: Diff information

[Editor of PoliSource]

Could someone tell me how to properly view the data, including
> >the long descriptions, in setup.ini, or point me to a tutorial on using 
>the
> >diff tools in cygwin?
>
>man diff

Thanks. I think I used that a long time ago, but I rarely use the command 
line so I forgot. Unfortunately, it doesn't work at my command line for some 
reason, but I found other sources for the manpages by searching Google. I 
also stumbled across information on the help command (diff --help), which 
does work at my command line.

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RE: Diff information

[Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)]

> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Editor of PoliSource

<SNIP>
> >man diff
>
> Thanks. I think I used that a long time ago, but I rarely use the command
> line so I forgot. Unfortunately, it doesn't work at my command
> line for some
> reason, but I found other sources for the manpages by searching Google. I
> also stumbled across information on the help command (diff --help), which
> does work at my command line.

General help in bash, for installed (cygwin/Linux/GNU) commands:

$ help <bash-internal command>
$ info <installed command>
$ man <installed command>

Replace <mumble-mumble> with anything that is suitable. Google for "beginner
+bash +prompt" or some such for more info.

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