Adding bsdiff to the base system

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 9:28 AM -0600 4/1/05, Dan Nelson wrote:
>In the last episode (Apr 01), Mario Hoerich said:
>>  # Robert Watson:
>>  > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Colin Percival wrote:
>>  > >   I'd like to add bsdiff/bspatch into the base system.
>>  [...]
>>  > I think this would be a useful addition.
>>  [...]
>>
>>  Not that it's important, but the names probably aren't the best
>>  possible choice, as 'bsdiff' seems to suggest 'BSD licensed diff'.
>>  (See bsdtar.)
>
>Yes, that's what I assumed this thread was about for the first
>couple posts.  bdiff/bpatch sound like better names.  What's the
>'s' stand for?

I was also confused by the names at first.  How about just
'bindiff' and 'binpatch'?  These do sound like useful utilities
to add, now that I understand what they are...

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