You don't have the diff program installed or your system can't find it.
This has nothing to do with ediff.
Adrian,
Thanks for your response. The output of the bug-report is below.
Here is the value of exec-path:
Value: ("C:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.10\\i586-pc-win32\\"
"D:\\PROGRAM DOWNLOADS\\ACTIVETCL\\bin\\" "D:\\Perl\\bin\\"
"D:\\Perl\\bin\\" "C:\\WINNT\\system32\\" "C:\\WINNT\\"
"C:\\WINNT\\System32\\Wbem\\"
"C:\\PROGRA~1\\F-Secure\\Ssh\\Program\\"
"C:\\Program Files\\SSH Communications Security\\SSH Secure Shell\\"
"C:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\\lib-src\\" "c:\\Program
Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.10\\i586-pc-win32\\")
To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
Subject: Cannot find diff from ediff
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Dear Bug Team!
Running XEmacs 21.4 in Windows 2000, when use the command ediff I get an
error message:
"Search for program: No such file or directory, diff"
What do I need to do to get xemacs to find diff, which is present in
cygwin.
Thanks,
David Zajic
dmzajic(a)umiacs.umd.edu
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