Re: Problem in sdiff

[Paul Eggert]

I can't reproduce your problem.  Perhaps you are using some other
sdiff, not GNU sdiff?

What is the output of the following commands?

sdiff --version
diff --version


Here is how I tried to reproduce your problem, but GNU sdiff seems to
be working for me.  I am using GNU diff 2.8.4, which you can get from
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.4.tar.gz>.

$ cat file1
X
Y
Z
$ cat file2
X
averylonglinexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxend
Y
Z
$ sdiff -l -w 198 file1 file2
X                                                                               
                  (
                                                                                
                  >     
averylonglinexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Y                                                                               
                  (
Z                                                                               
                  (