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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-01-24 00:31:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-01-24 00:31:17 +0000 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/diffutils-desc.sgml b/appendixa/diffutils-desc.sgml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..74b887a89 --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/diffutils-desc.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +<sect2> +<title>Contents</title> + +<para> +The Diffutils package contains the cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff programs. +</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Description</title> + +<sect3><title>cmp and diff</title> + +<para> +cmp and diff both compare two files and report their differences. Both +programs have extra options which compare files in different situations. +</para + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>diff3</title> + +<para> +The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff comprares 2 files, +diff3 compares 3 files. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>sdiff</title> + +<para> +sdiff merges two two files and interactively outputs the results. +</para> + +</sect3> + +</sect2> + |