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diffutils documentation: conflicting descriptions of -q (--brief) option


From: Scott James Cederberg
Subject: diffutils documentation: conflicting descriptions of -q (--brief) option
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:00:20 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.4i

Hello,

   The diffutils documentation node "Binary" (title "Binary Files and
   Forcing Text Comparisons") contains a minor conflict in its
   descriptions of the -q (--brief) option.

   In the fifth paragraph of that node, which begins "Differing binary
   files..." it says:

     "However, this trouble cannot occur with the --a or --text
     option, or with the -q or --brief option, as these options both
     cause diff to treat binary files like text files."

   But the preceding paragraph said that -q causes all files to be
   treated as *binary* files, not text files.

   I know it's a minor detail, but thanks for your attention to it.

   Keep up the good work.

                                                           Scott


-- 
Scott Cederberg
Researcher

Infomap Project 
Computational Semantics Lab
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Stanford University

http://infomap.stanford.edu/




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