[thelist] "Diff" in win32 environment

[Michael Pemberton]

Thanx.  I'm downloading it at the moment.

I tried a few of the different ports of diff and cound't seem to get
them to run.  They kept saying "The system cannot execute the specified
program."  Is there some program that diff relies upon that I could be
missing?

Can anyone suggest a good site for getting to know the ins and outs of
using diff?

Ed Courtenay wrote:
> 
> Installing cygwin on your machine (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin) will
> give you the command line GNU diff utility, or for a more graphical version,
> have a look at WinMerge (http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/). HTH...
> 
> Ed Courtenay
> http://www.edcourtenay.co.uk
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Pemberton" <mpember at phreaker.net>
> To: "Evolt" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 4:33 PM
> Subject: [thelist] "Diff" in win32 environment
> 
> > I am in the process of automating many of my intranet server processes.
> > One such process is the automatic backup of some of my www code.
> >
> > I am using PHP to do test if a file has been modified in the last 24
> > hours.  If so, it makes a new backup of the directory contents.  This is
> > working fine.
> >
> > I am now trying to work out a simple method of comparing the files to
> > see what changes have been made.  Since I am the only one that will be
> > making changes and the files are all being stored on a machine the the
> > next room, I don't want to install a complete CVS server setup.
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to get a "diff" style program to
> > compare the old/new files and output a log of what changes have been
> > made.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanx.
> >
> > I'll top up my credit when I can. I'm good for it. : )
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