Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #1 ("iso9945" problem)

[dickey]

> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> > *** orig/lynx2-8-2/README Wed Feb 17 07:29:33 1999 
> > --- lynx2-8-2/README Sat Feb 20 16:24:01 1999 
> > *************** 
> > *** 142,148 **** 
> >      Any messages you wish to post should be sent to address@hidden 
> >      PLEASE use the lynx-dev list, NOT private email to the developers, 
> >      for questions or discussion about Lynx, or contributions of patches. 
> > !    Patches should use the context diff format (diff -c). 
>  
> Is this statement out of date? It seems that more and more members of 
> the list are using universal diffs rather than context diffs. Is there a 
> preference one way or the other? Should we change the README file to 
> allow "diff -u"? 

I've read that the -u format is both more compact and easier to parse.
So I've been using it almost exclusively for some time.  (I can even
read it myself ;-)

>                                Doug 

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