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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla panic
From: |
Na Li |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla panic |
Date: |
Wed, 12 May 2004 11:52:36 -0500 |
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Emacs Gnus |
On 12 May 2004, Aaron Bentley verbalised:
Na Li wrote:
> > I'm using tla 1.2 on Mac OX 10.3.3. Now and then I got this: bass$
> > tla file-diffs Wiki/Teaching/BiostatOne/ConceptsTechniquesReview
> > PANIC: execvp for diff returned to caller It is just plain text file
> > but tla seems to regard it as binary. Google search didn't bring
> > anything useful. Any idea what went wrong?
>
> tla uses diff to determine whether files are binary or not. Apparently,
> diff considers a file to be binary if it contains the ASCII NUL
> character (0x00). Is it possibly a UTF-16 file? Those files usually
> contain a byte-order mark, which contains an 0x00, IIRC.
Thanks for the reply.
The files in question are not a UTF-16, just plain ASCII files, (which
Emacs uses 'undecided-unix' encoding). I can run diff manually with the
pristine copy just fine.
BTW, I have tried two different versions of diffutils: 2.7 which ships
with Mac OS X Panther and 2.8.1 installed from Fink. Both give the same
results. I've also tried to recompile tla from the latest archive with no
avail.
Michael