"Searching for program: No such file or directory, diff"

Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! This may not be a bug per se but i hope you guys can tell me how to fix it. the problem is that i get this error message "Searching for program: No such file or directory, diff" when i try to do a compare between two buffers using the Tools/Compare/Two Buffers menu compand. i have used this many times at other places i worked and had no problem but here xemacs was not installed so i installed it myself (i'm sure this is part of the problem) from your download site. and as far as i could tell it installed itself without incident. would you please tell me how to let xemacs know where the packages(?) reside or how to load them (if that is the problem)? thanks, mike parks ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- OS: Windows_NT XEmacs 21.4.3 \"Academic Rigor\" configured for `i586-pc-win32'. Building XEmacs in \"i:\\build\\xemacs\\xemacs\\nt\". Using compiler \"cl -nologo -W3 -O2 -G5 -ML\". Installing XEmacs in \"c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.3\". Package path is \"~\\.xemacs;;c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\site-packages;c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\". Compiling in support for Microsoft Windows native GUI. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for GIF images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in support for toolbars. Compiling in support for dialogs. Compiling in support for widgets. Compiling in support for native sounds. Compiling in fast dired implementation. Using minimal tagbits. Using indexed lrecord implementation. Using portable dumper. 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auto-save lisp-mode easymenu iso8859-1 page buff-menu lib-complete help-nomule cus-file derived frame text-props obsolete cus-start custom widget cl-extra mini-cl cl cl-19 packages backquote very-early-lisp file-coding mswindows-scrollbars mswindows toolbar native-sound scrollbar network-streams subprocesses menu-accelerator-support menubar md5 xemacs gutter tiff png gif jpeg xface xpm xbm lisp-float-type windows-nt dragdrop-api dialog devices window-system base64) Recent keystrokes: ----------------- RET C-x 2 C-x i C-g C-x o C-x C-f BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS y SPC M SPC SPC SPC SPC T h SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 0 1 SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC RET button1 button1up misc-user button1 button1up misc-user button1 button1up misc-user misc-user misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): ----------------------------------- Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading xemacsbug...done Searching for program: No such file or directory, diff Loading xemacsbug... Loading ediff... Not over a window. Searching for program: No such file or directory, diff Loading ediff... Making completion list... Making completion list... Making completion list... Making completion list... Making completion list... Quit Loading efs-cu...done Loading efs-cu... Making completion list... Loading font-lock...done Loading cus-face...done Loading cus-face... thanks mike