DiffUtils-2.8 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of the new release (2.8) of DiffUtils is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
DiffUtils is a collection of tools for comparing files.

This port of DiffUtils may be installed in any directory, provided the subdirectory
structure is maintained. Native language support is also active.

User-visible changes in version 2.8:

• cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001)
  if the underlying system conforms to POSIX and if the _POSIX2_VERSION
  environment variable is set to 200112. Conformance removes support
  for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number. Use -C NUM or -U NUM instead.
• cmp now supports trailing operands SKIP1 and SKIP2, like BSD cmp.
• cmp -i or --ignore-initial now accepts SKIP1:SKIP2 option value.
• New cmp option: -n or --bytes.
• cmp's old -c or --print-chars option has been renamed;
  use -b or --print-bytes instead.
• cmp now outputs "byte" rather than "char" outside the POSIX locale.
• cmp -l's index column width now adjusts to fit larger (or smaller) files.
• cmp -l -s and cmp -s -l are not allowed. Use cmp -s or cmp -l instead.
• diff uses ISO 8601 style time stamps for output times (e.g. "2001-11-23
  16:44:36.875702460 -0800") unless in the C or POSIX locale and the
  -c style is specified.
• diff's -I and -F options use the regexp syntax of grep, not of Emacs.
• diff now accepts multiple context arguments, and uses their maximum value.
• New diff and sdiff options:
  -E --ignore-tab-expansion
  --strip-trailing-cr
• New diff options:
  --from-file=FILE, --to-file=FILE
  --ignore-file-name-case
  --no-ignore-file-name-case
• New diff3 and sdiff option:
  --diff-program=PROGRAM
• The following diff options are still accepted, but are no longer documented.
  They may be withdrawn in future releases.
  -h (omit; it has no effect)
  -H (use --speed-large-files instead)
  -L (use --label instead)
  -P (use --unidirectional-new-file instead)
  --inhibit-hunk-merge (omit; it has no effect)
• Recursive diffs now sort file names according to the LC_COLLATE locale
  category if possible, instead of using native byte comparison.
• Diff printf specs can now use the "0" and "'" flags.
• The new sdiff interactive command `ed' precedes each version with a header.
• On 64-bit hosts, files larger than 2 GB can be compared.
• Some internationalization support has been added, but multibyte locales
  are still not completely supported yet.
• Some diagnostics have been reworded slightly for consistency.
  Also, diff -D FOO' now outputs/ ! FOO /' instead of `/ not FOO /'.
• The patch' part of the manual now describespatch' version 2.5.4.
• Man pages are now distributed and installed.
• There is support for DJGPP; see the 'ms' subdirectory and the files
  m4/dos.m4 and /setmode..