Cf. Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/540460 Package: diff Version: 2.8.1-13 Severity: wishlist
Please add new option -z, --compress to support compressed files. An example: # locate program's original manual $ whereis program program: /usr/bin/program /usr/share/man/man1/program.1.gz # From a version control checkout, what has changed? cd /usr/src/versin-control/program.cvs diff -u -z progam.1 /usr/share/man/man1/program.1.gz Jari
