Re: Synching text files.

2003-10-28 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:52:08PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:15:31AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: It will find matching blocks at arbitrary byte offsets. Think of the original file as a sequence of fixed sized blocks. Inserting or deleting a single byte

Synching text files.

2003-10-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, I'm trying to sync text files where lines get inserted and deleted. From what I understand, rsync uses blocks to compare and so can't find much data that matches. Would it be possible to make it work so it finds blocks that get inserted or deleted? Kurt -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: Synching text files.

2003-10-22 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:31:12PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, I'm trying to sync text files where lines get inserted and deleted. From what I understand, rsync uses blocks to compare and so can't find much data that matches. Would it be possible to make it work so it finds blocks that

Re: Synching text files.

2003-10-22 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 05:39, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:46:22AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:31:12PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, I'm trying to sync text files where lines get inserted and deleted. From what I understand, rsync uses