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+<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 files and interactively outputs the results.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+