good question!  answer: no error, just No difference between these files.
Apparently the local file is compared to itself, as if most of the file
equation works but not the dev=H#DISC part.

Tracy

> From: Simonsen, Larry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Subject: RE: compare across dsline
>
> What is the error you are receiving from dif?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy Pierce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: compare across dsline
>
> I'd like to compare files across 2 systems, and I must
> confess I still love
> dif.  so...
>
> y:dsline h=hobbes
> y:remote :h
> h:hello tracy,mgr.myacct
> h::
> y:file x=myfile;dev=h#disc
> y:dif
> DIF/3000(2.6R) (C) EASY Software Company 1981 FRI, FEB 22,
> 2002,  7:36 AM
>     For use by LICENSED Robelle Customers only
> DIF>i myfile
> DIF>o *x
> DIF>x
> ...
> but apparently dif doesn't see that file x is remote.  any ideas?
>
> and btw, has robelle-l moved?  mail sent to
> [log in to unmask] gets me a
> bounce message, saying I must be subscribed to yahoogroups,
> yech.  so here's
> my robelle-l question posted to good old reliable hp3000-l.
>
>
> K Tracy Pierce
> Systems Programmer
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