[Toybox] Does anybody have the diff pdf?

[enh]

my copy of plan 9 gave the actual name of the paper ("An Algorithm for
Differential File Comparison"), at which point the PDF is Google's first
match: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/diff.pdf

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:24 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> Instead of linking to posix, the diff.c in toybox pending links to
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/41.pdf at the top, but Lucent-alcatel
> apparently took that server down in 2015 and it had a robots.txt that
> prevented
> archive.org from preserving its contents. (There's an incomplete mirror
> of the
> "who" directory, but not the "cstr" directory, at
> http://cm-bell-labs.github.io/who/ .)
>
> It looks like posix has a reasonable diff description including unified
> format,
> but I'd like to read the old thing to see why the linked to that instead,
> if
> anybody has a copy. (Really that whole directory seems like it had a bunch
> of
> cool computer history stuff in it...)
>
> Rob
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