Re: address@hidden: ediff merge fails on Win2K - RESOLVED!]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:58:57 -0600
> From: Eric Pement <address@hidden>
> >
> >I suspect that the OP had a DOS port of Diffutils installed, and thus
> >Windows invoked them thru the DOS shell COMMAND.COM, which indeed has
> >that 126-char limit.  If that's true, the solution is to install a
> >native Windows port of Diffutils.
> 
>    Hello!  I'm the original poster. IIRC, I got the version of diff3 from
> from simtel.net, in the gnuish section.

This confirms my suspicion: gnuish programs are DOS executables.

So I suggest to find and install a native Windows port of Diffutils
(yes, MinGW or Cygwin).