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Diffstat (limited to 'textproc/2bsd-diff/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | textproc/2bsd-diff/pkg-descr | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/textproc/2bsd-diff/pkg-descr b/textproc/2bsd-diff/pkg-descr index 86f09cfb82cf..6477be27c91d 100644 --- a/textproc/2bsd-diff/pkg-descr +++ b/textproc/2bsd-diff/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ -This is the original diff program from 2.11BSD. It works better -with very large files on systems with datasize limits. +2.11BSD's original diff works significantly better with very large +files with default datasize limits. -Default FreeBSD limits datasize to 524288 kbytes. This means that -GNU diff processes that require more than this much ram will fail. -The 2.11BSD diff did not load the files in core and could operate -on considerably less ram. +GNU diff fails with out of memmory when operating on files at or +above the default limit to datasize. |