Before I knew about the Free-BSD man pages, I started to build man pages for the diff utilities from the diff info file and from their usage statements. In particular, I had made a man page for 'cmp' that way. When you (Jeff) pointed out the existence of the FreeBSD page, I incorporated information that was in it but which had previously been unclear (at least to me) from the info and usage statements.
The FreeBSD page for 'cmp' is now outdated, since 'cmp' supports more flags and handles some arguments in different ways; it would not be surprising to find out that the same was true for the other diff utilities. Therefore, my current plan is to finish building revised man pages for diff, sdiff, and diff3 using all of the info mentioned by everyone; then I plan to upload it to Paul Eggert, to distribute with the code if that's what he'd like to do. Paul is absolutely right that it is a pain to maintain several information resources, so I'm not soooo sure he'll want to incorporate this in a release. Meantime, I'm writing to Jordan Hubbard, to determine whether it's OK to use any text they'd written in their pages. Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
