[comp.sources.wanted] Side by side diff that ignores white space

istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos) (06/28/90)

keller@ficc.ferranti.com (Curtis Keller @ Ferranti) writes:
>Any pointers on a side-by-side difference tool (sdiff?) that ignores
>ALL white space (preceding and embeded) making a comparison of two
>ascii files and displays the two files side-by-side.  

# cdiff
twin `q cweed $1` `q cweed $2`
exit 0

Posted to alt.sources on Mar 21 the source for "twin" (C and Unix):
"Subject: twin --- a different kind of diff"
Size:28K

Posted to alt.sources on Jun 9 the sources for "q" and "cweed":
"Subject: ILIB Unix Toolkit in C"
(ILIB is a collection of general purpose routines; "q" and "cweed"
are among the 35 example programs or tools.)
Size:485K
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jjsc@inf.rl.ac.uk (John Cullen) (06/29/90)

In article <561@hhb.UUCP> istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos) writes:
[...]

>Posted to alt.sources on Mar 21 the source for "twin" (C and Unix):
>"Subject: twin --- a different kind of diff"
>Size:28K

[..etc]

Ahh, but is there anyway that archives the alt.sources stuff? These articles
have been expired from our site...

John

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