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.TH RFCDIFF "1" "April 2016" "rfcdiff 1.45    " "User Commands"
.SH NAME
rfcdiff \- compare RFCs or Internet Drafts or any other text files
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IP
rfcdiff [options] file1 file2
.PP
        
.IP
rfcdiff takes two RFCs or Internet\-Drafts in text form as input, and
produces output which indicates the differences found in one of various
forms, controlled by the options listed below. In all cases, page
headers and page footers are stripped before looking for changes.
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-html\fR
Produce side\-by\-side .html diff (default)
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-chbars\fR
Produce changebar marked .txt output
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-diff\fR
Produce a regular diff output
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-wdiff\fR
Produce paged wdiff output
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-hwdiff\fR
Produce html\-wrapped coloured wdiff output
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-oldcolour\fR COLOURNAME
Colour for new file in hwdiff (default is "green")
.TP
\fB\-\-oldcolor\fR COLORNAME
Color for old file in hwdiff (default is "red")
.TP
\fB\-\-newcolour\fR COLOURNAME
Colour for new file in hwdiff (default is "green")
.TP
\fB\-\-newcolor\fR COLORNAME
Color for new file in hwdiff (default is "green")
.TP
\fB\-\-larger\fR
Make difference text in hwdiff slightly larger
.TP
\fB\-\-browse\fR
Show html output in browser
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-keep\fR
Don't delete temporary workfiles
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
Show version
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
Show this help
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-info\fR "Synopsis|Usage|Copyright|Description|Log"
Show various info
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-width\fR N
Set a maximum width of N characters for the
display of each half of the old/new html diff
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-linenum\fR
Show linenumbers for each line, not only at the
start of each change section
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-body\fR
Strip document preamble (title, boilerplate and
table of contents) and postamble (Intellectual
Property Statement, Disclaimer etc)
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-nostrip\fR
Don't strip headers and footers (or body)
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-ab\-diff\fR
Before/After diff, suitable for rfc\-editor
.HP
\fB\-\-abdiff\fR
.PP
        
.TP
\fB\-\-stdout\fR
Send output to stdout instead to a file
.PP
        
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Peter Spiess-Knafl <dev@spiessknafl.at> for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).