Thanks for helping a kid out :)
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Jeff Wyman wrote:
>
> > I'm a complete idiot who doesn't even know how to make diffs, so I
> > thought I'd just let everybody know right away instead of figuring out
> > how to write a diff and holding out on you all for the time that may
> > take - I'm a slow learner.
>
> $ cp foo foo.orig
> $ your-favourite-editor foo
> <fix the problem in file "foo">
> $ diff -u foo.orig foo > foo.diff
>
> and that's about it. :-)
>
> Note that if you're sending a diff for documentation, diffs to the
> SGML source are best because that's the format the documentation is
> maintained in. (Well, the stuff under doc/ anyway, manpages are
> different of course.) But if you don't have the SGML source installed,
> a diff to the HTML would probably almost be sufficient to get the
> problem fixed.
>
> --
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