There are some stand-alone utilities in this distribution that are
useful.  They must be located in the "RCS:" directory in order for
the RCS programs to find them, but assuming that "RCS:" is in your
search path, they are available for other purposes.

First, there is "diff" and "diff3".  These are ports from GNU and are much
faster and more flexible than anything similar available for the Amiga.
For instance, the version of diff provided here supports directory and
sub-directory diff listings.  Diff3 is probably of limited use except
inside RCS...however, it does use true pipes and, in conjunction with
the source for popen.c (in the "rsbx.lib" directory) may prove useful
as a coding example. [Another good popen() example is merge.c in the source
directory for RCS. rsbx]  At any rate, peruse the README file that is
present in the "diff" directory for details.

Second there is "ked".  This is an Amiga version of the famous (infamous?)
Unix "ed" program.  It is named "ked" here because the name "ed" was
already taken on the Amiga.  It is, as far as I know, completely compatible
with the Unix version of ed...including the ability to read scripts from
stdin.  It is used by the "merge" program in RCS to process the piped
output from diff3 but does work stand-alone.


					Rick