>> tries to do word-level diffs (by basically turning every word >> into N copies of this word, each one on its own line (where N is the >> number of chars in the word, used to indicate to `diff` that long words >> are "more costly" than short ones) > Ouch. That's a really inefficient way of mucking with the cost > algorithm.
What other way is there? > Diff should be able to do taht directly, without your having to > repeat the words. (Just a simple matter of programming....) "man diff" doesn't seem to offer much room for "programming". Stefan