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[smythe]

I need a unix like "diff" for use with Windows XP. I need to run this on the command line and send the output to standard out.

Does anyone know where I can get an XP port of diff?

Thanks in advance.
Kevin

 

[PHV]

Have you take a look at cygwin ?


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[smythe]

Thanks, that is useful. I actually ended up using this

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

which is basically the same thing you recommended I think but does not require an emulator.

Thanks again.

 

[smythe]

Well I got the unix diff working no XP, but it doesn't do everything I need. Does anyone know of a command line interface that creates output similar to Microsoft's windiff.exe?

Windiff gives me what I need, but I need to pipe the output to standard output... how can I accomplish this?

 

[PHV]

And what about the legacy FC command ?

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[smythe]

Where can I get the legacy FC program? It does not appear to be included with the cygwin utilities.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

Open a console windows and type fc /?.
This is a microsoft command.
Otherwise, if you have downloaded some unix-like utils, you may take a look at comm.

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[smythe]

Well...

I finally though of trying to run windiff from the command prompt... I typed windiff -h and a whole new help box appeared displaying options for a command line interface which is exactly what I needed to accomplish this. The frustrating part about this is that there is no mention of any of these command line options within help->contents or help->about.

I really do appreciate your help though, thanks again.