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From: FLAMBE::jmf "Joshua M. Friedman OSF/UNIX SDE"
To: srb@unx.dec.com
CC: odehelp@DEC:.zko.flambe
Subj: Re: question about bdiff stat error
Sunil, ODE assumes that all filenames are relative to the src directory
of the pool you're working on. By including the argument:
/spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h
in bdiff, ODE looks for the file - in the RCS pool:
<pool>/src/spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h
Bdiff is explicitly for comparing files in ODE (RCS) with one another,
or against the same file IN THE SAME DIRECTORY in your sandbox.
Perhaps you want just plain 'diff' for what you're doing. The RCS file
spec with ,v is referring to looking in the RCS pool "behind the scenes",
not on your system.
If you want to compare the current sandbox's file with what you started
with or last checked in, just do
bdiff signal.h
Hope that helps... -josh
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Subject: question about bdiff stat error
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 16:23:42 -0500
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Dear odehelp,
I am trying to use bdiff to compare the two files: one in the backing tree
and one in my local directory.
bdiff reports stat error, since it needs existence of
"signal.h,v" filename (with comma-v suffix), even though
I am explicitely giving it the full path-name as
"/spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h".
How to make bdiff just do the diffs on its two argument files and not report the
stat error (i.e. to make it stop hunting for its own-creation which is non-existent ;-) )?
thanks,
Sunil.
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685 /spec1170/sandbox/sb/src/kernel/sys>bdiff -c signal.h /spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h
[ ./kernel/sys/signal.h ]
[ ./spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h ]
stat error: ./spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h,v: No such file or directory
686 /spec1170/sandbox/sb/src/kernel/sys>ls -l /spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 stdsbld system 33166 Nov 28 11:45 /spec1170/sandbox/sb/sunil/signal.h
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