is to be provided by --suffix). Looking at the usage here in diffutils,
it seems that we can just get rid of the -b .orig stuff. This resolves
a problem that can triggered if we move toward to a more permissively
licensed patch(1) program.
default options for diff. These options are interpreted first and can be
overwritten by explicit command line parameters.
* Add the "-o" option to specify old-traditional output style.
* Add utility functions for env vars obtained from GNU Grep 2.3h.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Subject: man pages for diff et al.
I finally got tired of not having man pages for diff and friends, so I
edited the appropriate sections of the texinfo manual into man format.
