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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:49:23 +0200
From:      Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun
Message-ID:  <86u0t24iy4.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net>
References:  <20041002225028.05205e9a.metaridley@mchsi.com> <200410042154.52088.dgw@liwest.at> <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20041005101740.GD9642@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

> Ah -- yes.  That brings back memories.  Trying to use sdiff(1) on
> Solaris.  Where you want your terminal to be as wide as possible so
> you can display the files you're diffing side by side, but you can't
> use emacs(1) as your $EDITOR because the way it shuffles around copies
> of the files to keep a backup version confuses sdiff(1).

Does it help to frob backup-by-copying and/or some of the other
variables starting "backup-by-copying-"?

Kai



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