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README for GNU DIFF
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This directory contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities.
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Their features are a superset of the Unix features and they are
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significantly faster.
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Please see the file COPYING for copying conditions.
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Please see the file doc/version.texi for version information.
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Please see the file doc/diff.texi (or doc/diff.info) for documentation
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that can be printed with TeX, or read with the `info' program or with
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Emacs's `M-x info'. Brief man pages are in man/*, but they are no
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substitute for the documentation.
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Please see the file ABOUT-NLS for notes about translations.
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Please see the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation
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instructions. Briefly, you can run "./configure; make install". The
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command "./configure --help" lists the supported --enable and --with
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options.
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If you have a problem with internationalization, you might be able to
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work around it as described in ABOUT-NLS by invoking `./configure
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--disable-nls'. Many of the problems arise from dynamic linking
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issues on non-GNU platforms (e.g. with the iconv library). Such
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problems tend to be shared by other GNU applications on these
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platforms, and can usually be fixed by carefully tweaking your non-GNU
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installation. If you have an older version of libiconv, please
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upgrade to the latest one; see <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/>. If
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the problem seems isolated to diffutils, though, please report a bug.
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This program requires a Standard C compiler (C89 or later). If you
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have a nonstandard compiler, please install GCC first.
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If you make changes to the source code, you may need appropriate
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versions of GNU build tools to regenerate the intermediate files. The
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following versions were used to generate the intermediate files in
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this distribution:
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* Autoconf 2.59 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz>
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* Automake 1.8.3 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.3.tar.gz>
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* gettext 0.14.1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.14.1.tar.gz>
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* help2man 1.33 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.33.1.tar.gz>
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* Texinfo 4.7 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.tar.gz>
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Please report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
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-----
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Copyright (C) 1992, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation,
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Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Diffutils.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
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the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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