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Old 10-12-2010
@methyl . . . and for Apple, just a CR.

The CR comes before the linefeed because the carriage on the teletype needs a lot of time to move up to 8+ inches to the left, more compared to the time to raise the platen roller and paper 1/6 of an inch. Some of that time came from the stop and parity bits at the end of the serial, asynchronous data characters, but slow devices on fast lines needed null padding characters. Nobody seemed to have the right formulas to correctly pad for a form feed, not that you wanted to buy that much paper.

Luckily, only Notepad insists on CR; email, Wordpad and Word do not.

Man pages come with embeded backspace for underlining and bold, but who has a paper terminal any more? Sometimes, paper print programmers used the CR alone to overprint the line for bold, underline or strikeout.
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CUT-DIFF(1)							  Cutter's manual						       CUT-DIFF(1)

NAME

       cut-diff - show difference between 2 files with color

SYNOPSIS

       cut-diff [option ...] file1 file2

DESCRIPTION

       cut-diff is a diff command that uses diff feature in Cutter. It shows difference with color.

       It's recommended that you use a normal diff(1) when you want to use with patch(1) or you don't need color.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      cut-diff shows its own version and exits.

       -c [yes|true|no|false|auto], --color=[yes|true|no|false|auto]
	      If  'yes' or 'true' is specified, cut-diff uses colorized output by escape sequence. If 'no' or 'false' is specified, cut-diff never
	      use colorized output. If 'auto' or the option is omitted, cut-diff uses colorized output if available.

	      The default is auto.

       -u, --unified
	      cut-diff uses unified diff format.

       --context-lines=LINES
	      Shows diff context around LINES.

	      All lines are shown by default. When unified diff format is used, 3 lines are shown by default.

       --label=LABEL, -L=LABEL
	      Uses LABEL as a header label. The first--label option value is used as file1's label and the second --label  option  value  is  used
	      asfile2's label.

	      Labels are the same as file names by default.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status is 0 for success, non-0 otherwise.

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EXAMPLE

       In the following example, cut-diff shows difference between file1 and file2:
	   % cut-diff file1 file2

       In the following example, cut-diff shows difference between file1 and file2 with unified diff format:
	   % cut-diff -u file1 file2

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       diff(1)

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