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Re: cmp (or echo) bug?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: David BalaÅic <xerces9 at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 07:40:06 +0300
- Subject: Re: cmp (or echo) bug?
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Greetings, David BalaÅic!
> It is irrelevant how it is implemented. The command means "compare the
> output of those two commands" and the only correct result is "they
> differ on byte 5".
> It is clearly a bug.
I wouldn't be so hastily jumping to conclusions, if I were you.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 07:39:06
Sorry for my terrible english...