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Re: diff: incorrect and undocumented cmp output when stdout is redirecte


From: Vincent Lefevre
Subject: Re: diff: incorrect and undocumented cmp output when stdout is redirected
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:51:02 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.11-vl-20060309

On 2006-03-09 12:48:07 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Good catch.  Wow, that bug has been in GNU cmp ever since it was
> entered into CVS in 1991.

Wow!

> >> The output of the cmp command should be documented.
> 
> The current documentation says this: is it not enough?

Grrr... The documentation in Debian is completely out-of-date!
No mention of EOF. The copyright lines of the diff.info are:

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2003 John G. Hasler

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