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Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> Jasen <xx@yy.zz> writes:
> 
> >> How do I enable diff on Emacs?  Doesn't diff a standard built-in
> >> function in Emacs?  Wheh I try to diff two buffers, i got "no such
> >> file or directory" error that doesn't sound right, what did I miss
> >> here?
> >
> > Sorry, forgot to tell you that I'm using Emacs 21.2.1 on Windows XP.
> 
> Ah, then you need to install the 'diff' program from somewhere.  One
> possibility is to get it from the Cygwin tools.

If you don't want the entire Cygwin environment, you can get individual
Unix utilities.  For example:

	http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/