On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:49:41PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Both 'man diff' and 'diff --help' refer to the parameter --tabsize as >follows: > >--tabsize=NUM Tab stops are every NUM (default 8) print columns. > >But this seems to be broken: > >$ echo -e "\t\tfilea" > filea; echo "\t\t\tfileb" > fileb; diff >--tabsize=4 filea fileb diff: option `--tabsize' doesn't allow an >argument diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
This seems to be fixed in diffutils 2.8.7. I've made a new release available. It should be percolating to mirrors soon. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
