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Timestamp:
09/24/2003 10:29:16 PM (21 years ago)
Author:
Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>
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Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.

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    77<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
    88
    9 <sect4><title>cmp and diff</title>
    10 <para>cmp and diff both compare two files and report their differences. Both
    11 programs have extra options which compare files in
    12 different situations.</para></sect4>
     9<para><command>cmp</command> compares two files and reports whether or
     10in which bytes they differ.</para>
    1311
    14 <sect4><title>diff3</title>
    15 <para>The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff compares 2 files,
    16 diff3 compares 3 files.</para></sect4>
     12<para><command>diff</command> compares two files or directories and reports
     13which lines in the files differ.</para>
    1714
    18 <sect4><title>sdiff</title>
    19 <para>sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs
    20 the results.</para></sect4>
     15<para><command>diff3</command> compares three files line by line.</para>
     16
     17<para><command>sdiff</command> merges two files and interactively outputs
     18the results.</para>
    2119
    2220</sect3>
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