Re: Bug Report: Diff 2.7 has incorrect output for files with LFCR as line terminator.

[Alex Bochannek]

> Alex Bochannek <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It appears that "diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7" (Solaris 8)
> > produces incorrect output for context and unified diffs when applied
> > to files, which use LFCR as a line termination sequence. The diffs are
> > in fact accurate, but the first column (with '+', '-', '!', etc.) is
> > missing:
> 
> More likely, they are written correctly, but then the carriage return
> causes the following text to overwrite the first column when displayed
> directly on a terminal.  What do you see when you view the diffs in
> emacs or less?

Interesting. Yes, it does seem to be merely a display problem. Example
line from a diff (this time diff 2.7.2 on Linux):

-^M# MSM64 Configuration generated Wed Jun 6 06:18:37 2001
+^M# MSM64 Configuration generated Wed Jun 6 06:09:58 2001

Do you think there is anything within diff that you would be willing
to do to address this? Maybe a line termination sequence option?

Thanks.

Alex.