From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:04:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8se9gpv.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011008165233.9D1FC199F3@mail.cse.psu.edu>
anothy@cosym.net writes:
> cmp(1) works fine on binary files. what else are you looking for in diff? i
> bind adiff into my /bin even when not in acme, to plumb from anywhere.
I want diff to DTRT for whatever kind of file it is.
Indeed, line-by-line diff can even work for binary files! You have to
make sure you escape things appropriately so that patch (or ed, or
whatever) can deal, but the case is not somehow inconceivable. (Of
course, for binary files a diff will often typically be as large as
the original: and I don't so much mind just falling back to cmp.)
> // * Lack of a web browser.
>
> in Inferno, see charon(1).
Inferno != Plan 9.
There is no web browser in Plan 9---and that's got to be a big
obstacle.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-09 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-08 16:51 anothy
2001-10-09 9:04 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2001-10-09 9:04 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-10-10 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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2001-10-16 19:46 forsyth
2001-10-15 18:36 David Gordon Hogan
2001-10-15 14:45 presotto
2001-10-11 15:17 forsyth
2001-10-11 19:29 ` Micah Stetson
2001-10-11 12:21 bwc
2001-10-11 11:20 forsyth
2001-10-12 9:23 ` pac
2001-10-10 10:50 forsyth
2001-10-10 13:06 ` Sam Hopkins
2001-10-10 10:45 forsyth
2001-10-09 17:08 forsyth
2001-10-10 8:56 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10 9:55 ` Mike Haertel
2001-10-10 10:09 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-11 9:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 16:55 anothy
2001-10-09 15:23 anothy
2001-10-09 14:56 anothy
2001-10-09 13:18 bwc
2001-10-10 8:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-09 10:55 rog
2001-10-09 11:50 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-09 10:12 forsyth
2001-10-09 16:18 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 21:24 Russ Cox
2001-10-08 21:21 rog
2001-10-08 20:17 Russ Cox
2001-10-14 19:54 ` Mike Haertel
2001-10-15 6:46 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-15 8:30 ` Mike Haertel
2001-10-08 6:27 [9fans] mv vs cp Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 8:38 ` Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp) Mike Haertel
2001-10-08 9:08 ` Lucio De Re
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