SDFIFF.HELPCMD.D1

SDIFF                                                   CMS PORT of UNIX COMMAND
 
Usage: sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
Side-by-side merge of file differences.
 
  -o FILE  --output=FILE  Operate interactively, sending output to FILE.
 
  -i  --ignore-case  Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
  -E  --ignore-tab-expansion  Ignore changes due to tab expansion.
  -b  --ignore-space-change  Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
  -W  --ignore-all-space  Ignore all white space.
  -B  --ignore-blank-lines  Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
  -I RE  --ignore-matching-lines=RE  Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
  --strip-trailing-cr  Strip trailing carriage return on input.
  -a  --text  Treat all files as text.
 
  -w NUM  --width=NUM  Output at most NUM (default 130) columns per line.
  -l  --left-column  Output only the left column of common lines.
  -s  --suppress-common-lines  Do not output common lines.
 
  -t  --expand-tabs  Expand tabs to spaces in output.
 
  -d  --minimal  Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.
  -H  --speed-large-files  Assume large files and many scattered small changes.
  --diff-program=PROGRAM  Use PROGRAM to compare files.
 
  -v  --version  Output version info.
  --help  Output this help.
 
If a FILE is `-', read standard input.
 
Notes:-
 
As this is a straight port of a UNIX program it expects file names to be
specified as :-
 
  <filename.filetype.fm>
 
or
 
  DD:<ddname>
 
where "ddname" is the name of a Dataset Description that has been created by a
FILEDEF command.