Re: Compare two data files

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:40:22PM +1000, Michelle Parker wrote:
>      
>      FLIP seems to truncate the variable names to 8 chars, and
>      remove the string values so that's not really an option.
>
> Yes.  This is a limitation that was reported some time ago.
> See the bug report at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20492
> However so far nobody had really complained about it.  The
> savannah bug tracker has the feature whereby one can "vote" for
> bugs.  So if this is important to you then you can cast your
> vote on it.

Or you can just add a comment saying that you'd like to see this
bug fixed/feature added.  I've done this for now.
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Ben Pfaff 
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