Re: Comparing and merging - ediff errors

Hi, Thanks a lot. I have two diff utilities. diff and diff3, did a search on the net and it seems that diff 3 is used to compare 3 files while diff compares 2 files. My compare function works just fine so my diff should be ok. My merge doesn't work so there must be a problem with my diff3. Actually the error is also in diff3.exe as you can see in the error message. The versions of both these tools are 2.7, I am trying to upgrade to 2.8.1, can you please tell me where to download prebuilt 2.8.1 diffutils for windows (XP)(2.7 was given to me by a friend). I am using native windows Xemacs, not cygwin. I can't use Xemacs cygwin because I am already using cygwin( the very first cygwin) and xemacs, XFree86 and emacs, if I download them now, don't work with it. For reasons I don't want to go into I can't upgrade to the latest cygwin. Also, when you compare directories using native Xemacs , you click on Tools, then you go to compare and choose directories. Now you get the standard windows filw browser which is not satisfied until you choose a file !!! So how are you able to choose a directory, please do inform me. thanks a lot Dhiraj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Aichner" <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; To: "Dhiraj Gaurh" <dhiraj(a)utstar.com&gt; Cc: "Michael Kifer" <kifer(a)cs.sunysb.edu>; <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:42 AM Subject: Re: Comparing and merging - ediff errors of = ediff = difference, = error:=20 crashes as = some = shows a = to = to = "--ignore-matching-lines=^<!-- Created" "--ignore-matching-lines=\\<\\(RfId\\|Hvd\\(Exp\\)?\\)\\.pl\\>\\|page last modified" "--ignore-matching-lines=^date:" "--ignore-matching-lines=^\\w+, [0-9]+ \\w+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+:[0-9]+:[0-9]+" "--brief")