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[Ekkehard Krüger]

Hallo,

I do not know wether or not this is a bug.

with my former emacs instalation, I used often
ediff, for instance to compare two files. This is
a very useful program.

Now, I have installed the newest version of emacs,
namely 21.3.1 (on the platform Windows98).
Ediff does no longer work. When I try
to compare two files, I get the error message:

Searching for program: no such file or directory, diff

A similar message I get when I insert the line
(require ' ediff)
in my .emacs-file.

What can I do?

Thank you for an answer of my question,
Ekkehard Krüger

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[Kevin Rodgers]

Ekkehard Krüger wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I do not know wether or not this is a bug.
> 
> with my former emacs instalation, I used often
> ediff, for instance to compare two files. This is
> a very useful program.
> 
> Now, I have installed the newest version of emacs,
> namely 21.3.1 (on the platform Windows98).
> Ediff does no longer work. When I try
> to compare two files, I get the error message:
> 
> Searching for program: no such file or directory, diff
> 
> A similar message I get when I insert the line
> (require ' ediff)
> in my .emacs-file.
> 
> What can I do?

Install the diff program.  If it is already installed, make
sure the Emacs ediff-diff-program variable is correct.

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Kevin Rodgers