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Re: diff thinking files are binaries?

...on Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:04:04PM +0100, Bram Van Dam wrote:

 > Apparently for some reason diff(1) thinks the files are binaries. Is 
 > there any way to force diff(1) to parse the files as text files? Or is 

diff(1) sais:

       -a
       --text Treat all files as text and compare  them  line-by-
              line, even if they do not seem to be text.

Alex.