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Arbitrary Limits
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   GNU `diff' can analyze files with arbitrarily long lines and files
that end in incomplete lines.  However, `patch' cannot patch such
files.  The `patch' internal limits on line lengths should be removed,
and `patch' should be extended to parse `diff' reports of incomplete
lines.