/usr/lib/rdiff and /bin/diff (Was: elementary problems)

[Brendan Eich]

In article <2956 at odin.SGI.COM>, msc at ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
> The case sensitivity problem has been fixed and the fix will appear in the
> next release.  Canonicalizehostname converts all hostnames to lower case.
> 
> /usr/lib/rdiff is the diff program for rcs and is essentially the 4.3BSD diff.

And in that same next release, /bin/diff will be the 4.3BSD diff ported to
Irix, replacing the (subset) SVR3 diff.  BSD diff fans needn't alias diff to
/usr/lib/rdiff forever.

Brendan Eich
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
brendan at sgi.com