Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   "How do I do that?" Right, he was in Windows, and there's no diff in
>>> Windows. We pondered for a moment what would be the easiest solution.
> 
>> Download diff for Windows? :-)
> 
>   That's precisely the problem I was talking about.

I was just answering the question. I understood your point, but the easiest 
solution would have been to download the stand-alone diff executable. :-)

>   (Additionally, Windows' command prompt just isn't as easy to use as
> unix's. It's just a PitA to try to do anything in it.)

No argument there.

>   Yeah, rather than take 2 seconds to diff the files in the mac computer,
> he would have to spend at least 2 hours to find out how to do the same
> thing in vim (and this after he had found and installed the program).

Well, diff works from the command line just like in UNIX. Maybe 3 minutes to 
find and download diff (once you know the best search terms) and then you 
run it from the command line.

If you want side-by-side diffs, you can invoke it from vim, is all I was 
saying. The same tools work. They're just not distributed there by default.

>   I'm talking about a real, actual, concrete experience here, not some
> theoretical "methinks" thing. Diffing the files on the mac was just way,
> way less hassle than *anything* else.

OK. I'm talking *my* real actual concrete experience. I *have* diff on my 
windows machine, along with netpbm and tar and gzip and a couple other 
packages I'm used to using or that I need to talk to unix machines. It's 
less of a hassle than you think, and you only need to do it once.

It was more a FYI post ("btw, it's easy to solve this problem on Windows so 
he doesn't have to bother you next time") than it was "you're wrong."

I still copy RAR files over to a UNIX VM to take apart because I haven't 
found an easy free unrar program for Windows, so I know just what you mean. 
"diff" doesn't fall into that category, is all.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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