Joe Saunders wrote on 13 March 2008 19:29: > I downloaded cygwin to my XP desktop and assumed there > would be a diff utility in th shell or utilities.. > Did not see it... > > Then i went online at cygwin to get the diff utility. could not find a > pakcage...
It's there, it's just not one of the basic packages that are selected for installation by default. > There has to be one, what am i missing here... The cygwin website's package search feature: http://cygwin.com/packages/ Try putting "diff" into the search box there. Ah, quite a lot of hits, but since you happen to know you're searching for the diff executable then it's going to have a ".exe" extension and live in a directory called "bin", so try "bin/diff.exe". Then install that package using setup.exe as normal. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
