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Re: (visual) diff for large files



Am 2008-05-01 13:10:56, schrieb michael:
> 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!)

Errors?

Since I am currently kicked off by a wather-damage and have only my old
IBM ThinkPad 570 I can not realy help you, but...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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