Bill McCarthy wrote:
On Thu 7-Sep-06 10:01pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
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Or you may have a nonstandard diff.exe: the --help for my GNU diff
(version 2.8.7) makes no mention of a --binary argument.
Perhaps I need an upgrade:
[c:\pad]diff --version
diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7
Since this is also located in my $vimruntime, I assume it
was packed with the original 7.0 for Windows. BTW, it is
clearly Vim providing that --binary flag - something about
the old ctrl-z stuff, in the first versions of DOS, possibly
ending the process early.
If it came packaged with Vim, it ought to be compatible; however I don't
remember a diff utility in Bram's "standard" W32 installers. Steve
Hall's might be better though.
If you look for an upgrade, I recommend the GnuWin32 project on
sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32
Best regards,
Tony.