When Unix Stops Being Fun

[Kai Grossjohann]

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

> Ah -- yes.  That brings back memories.  Trying to use sdiff(1) on
> Solaris.  Where you want your terminal to be as wide as possible so
> you can display the files you're diffing side by side, but you can't
> use emacs(1) as your $EDITOR because the way it shuffles around copies
> of the files to keep a backup version confuses sdiff(1).

Does it help to frob backup-by-copying and/or some of the other
variables starting "backup-by-copying-"?

Kai