[ale] diff being boneheaded

Wed Aug 7 13:29:22 EDT 2013

Could there be tabs in one file's lines, and spaces in the other?  What 
about other unprintable characters?

Stephen R. Blevins
stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com

On 08/07/2013 12:37 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I've got 2 text files  > 6M lines each. Each file is sorted in
> dictionary order. diff is flagging identical lines between them as
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