"David du Colombier" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me restate the question. When one has only the "new" file and > > the ed script that created it from the "old" one, and said script > > says "delete lines N through M", how does one recover the lines > > that were deleted? (With context or unified diffs, the deleted text > > is there.) > > I don't think you can "reverse" the ed scripts produced with "diff -e", > unlike unified diff files. > > However, in 9hist, the files are always reconstructed forward, > starting from the complete original file.
OK, then it makes sense then. Much thanks! Arnold
