Re: (visual) diff for large files

["Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <herrsergio@gmail.com>]

2008/5/1 michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>:
> At work we've been discussing (below) 'diff' running out of memory. I've
>  tried to see if 'rdiff' can help (but no idea how to back out the
>  differences from the "delta" o/p file). I've seen that freeBSD has a
>  diff utility (eg 2bsd-diff) that does NOT read in all of the files in
>  one go and thus has less problems with 'memory exhausted' but I cannot
>  find a Debian equivalent. Therefore,
>
>  does anybody know of a freeBSD->Debian ports site?
>
>  I did try downloading the 2.11bsd-diff source but it doesn't build on my
>  system (unsurprisingly!)

Hello,

>From where have you downloaded the source of the bsd-diff ?  I am
searching for it, just to try to compile it. Which are the errors you
get ?

Best regards,
Sergio Cuellar

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