gnats/598: Re: gnats/598

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The following reply was made to PR gnats/598; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael van Elst <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: gnats/598
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:35:55 +0200

 On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:34:26PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
 
 > I tried running your patched diff-prs against an identical
 > file.  Each field was printed:
 
 This is the 'magic' of diff-prs. It reads two files with a single
 invokation of awk and distinguishes both files by name. If you
 specify the same filename twice then this looks to the awk script
 like a single file with repeated content. So you compare the full
 set of fields to an empty set of fields.
 
 Please try:
 
 cp ~gnats/gnats/gnats/598 file1
 cp ~gnats/gnats/gnats/598 file2
 diff-prs file1 file2
 
 Greetings,
 -- 
                                 Michael van Elst
 Internet: address@hidden
                                 "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."