On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 4, 4:13 pm, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I get an E97 every time I try a diff, even after setting diffexpr to >> be empty. I've checked that I can create temporary files with a >> writefile([strftime("%c")],tempname()). >> >> So, this doesn't seem to be caused by tmp file access, a bad diffexpr, >> or any of the other usual suspects. See the following cmd.exe session, >> in a directory made by a fresh gvim 7.3.289 install (latest "Vim >> without Cream"): >> >> C:\>cd "Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73" >> >> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>dir *.exe >> Volume in drive C is Local Disk >> Volume Serial Number is EA9A-15F2 >> >> Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73 >> >> 07/28/1999 08:15 PM 73,728 diff.exe >> 08/29/2011 12:24 PM 2,667,008 gvim.exe >> 10/04/2011 04:06 PM 45,910 uninstall.exe >> 08/29/2011 12:25 PM 2,494,464 vim.exe >> 08/29/2011 12:24 PM 8,192 vimrun.exe >> 08/29/2011 12:24 PM 15,872 xxd.exe >> 6 File(s) 5,305,174 bytes >> 0 Dir(s) 206,321,045,504 bytes free >> >> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>.\diff.exe --version >> >> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>echo %errorlevel% >> -1073741819 >> >> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73> >> >> Has anyone had success using the diff.exe included in the standard >> Cream install, on Windows XP 64-bit? > > Is there anyone out there running vim on Windows XP 64-bit? I want to > know whether I'm alone in this. >
I was able to get diff working by installing GNU Diff Utils: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/diffutils/2.8.7-1/diffutils-2.8.7-1.exe/download as suggested here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Running_diff But, I've never needed to do this before. Why was this necessary? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
