thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (07/22/83)
I have a pair of files (one derived from the other) which diff will not handle correctly. The symptom is that starting with the line containing the first difference, diff reports all changes as n1,n2cn1,n2 (even though there have been insertions!) Needless to say, this is a pretty useless diff listing, since it tells me that almost every line in the file has been changed. With the original pair of files, diff -h failed "Unable to resyncronize", when I moved a large insertion to the end, diff -h succeeded, but diff still failed the same way. Has anybody seen this one before? Do you have a fix? (I think I must have hit the "Jackpot" situation alluded to in the man page, except for the absence of an error message.) (This is 4.1bsd diff.) =Spencer