my copy of plan 9 gave the actual name of the paper ("An Algorithm for
Differential File Comparison"), at which point the PDF is Google's first
match: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/diff.pdfOn Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:24 AM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > Instead of linking to posix, the diff.c in toybox pending links to > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/41.pdf at the top, but Lucent-alcatel > apparently took that server down in 2015 and it had a robots.txt that > prevented > archive.org from preserving its contents. (There's an incomplete mirror > of the > "who" directory, but not the "cstr" directory, at > http://cm-bell-labs.github.io/who/ .) > > It looks like posix has a reasonable diff description including unified > format, > but I'd like to read the old thing to see why the linked to that instead, > if > anybody has a copy. (Really that whole directory seems like it had a bunch > of > cool computer history stuff in it...) > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net >
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