Lars wrote:

> Oh, regarding /bin/diff on MPE... I sometimes got "strange"
> errors (like "file too big") from it when trying to compare
> MPE record oriented files. A workaround was to use tobyte
> (with -at options) to created bytestream files for diff'ing.

I've used this approach and had the same problem, and used the same
workaround.  As I recall, diff(1) seemed to like variable-length record
files O.K., but often doesn't like fixed-length record files.  

Then there's the problem of comparing numbered files, like COBOL source
files, when one or both files have been renumbered.

Walter  

Walter J. Murray

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