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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: The GNU Ada compiler
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:42:42 +0000
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Larry Kilgallen wrote:

>> I presume you mean something other than the standard VMS utilities
>> PATCH (which is VAX-only) and DIFFERENCES.
>
> Well Unix patch and unix diff - same job - different commandline
> options.  You get them for VMS as well via GNV (GNU's Not VMS).

IIRC, VMS PATCH is for patching binaries, so not the same at all! Unix
patch is for source files.

Unix diff is more like the VMS utility, though one of its features is
the ability to output diffs in a form that can be used as input to
patch.