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> From: "Søren \"Pengman\" Pedersen" <pengman@pengworld.zzn.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 03:55:47 +0100
> 
> Im trying to invoke emacs to do a comparesion of two files under windows XP
> with
> emacs -f (ediff-files "file1" "file2")
> from a command line, but O get the following errors in the *messages* buffer
> within emacs
> 
> command-line-1: Symbol's function definition is void: \(ediff-files
> Server subprocess exited

Use --eval instead of -f, and put the entire parenthesized expression
into quotes, to make it a single argument.