Historically option -a for use with diff had for decades been explained as "treat all files as text" - where 'text' refered to the executable (binary) code of a program (cf. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/97e19979-fdf5-4609-8e65-838cf1a3fdfb).
Current updates of documentation and man-Page appear to refer inconsistently to the original meaning and to confuse it with unrelated notion of ASCII “text“. HTH. Best regards, Matthias -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Matthias Hanno Fröhlich M: +49 / 1 51 / 54 77 22 89 Bonnstraße 49 50354 Hürth e: [email protected] ======================================================================
