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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-12-29T22·08+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-12-29T22·08+0000
commit4f07ebc67e74629724c441352a58b12143383129 (patch)
tree52fad623c7192402e2d8960dc6c259dff66779b2 /src/bsdiff-4.2/bsdiff.1
parent54d8f0858825e9ae4c8fdf54b7c2019edee05237 (diff)
* Integrated bsdiff/bspatch 4.2 (from
  http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/bsdiff-4.2.tar.gz) into the source
  tree.  The license is a bit peculiar, but it does allow verbatim
  copying, which is what we do here (i.e., so don't make any changes
  to the sources).

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+.Dd May 18, 2003
+.Dt BSDIFF 1
+.Os FreeBSD
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm bsdiff
+.Nd generate a patch between two binary files
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Ao Ar oldfile Ac Ao Ar newfile Ac Ao Ar patchfile Ac
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+compares
+.Ao Ar oldfile Ac
+to
+.Ao Ar newfile Ac
+and writes to
+.Ao Ar patchfile Ac
+a binary patch suitable for use by bspatch(1).
+When
+.Ao Ar oldfile Ac
+and
+.Ao Ar newfile Ac
+are two versions of an executable program, the
+patches produced are on average a factor of five smaller
+than those produced by any other binary patch tool known
+to the author.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+uses memory equal to 17 times the size of 
+.Ao Ar oldfile Ac ,
+and requires
+an absolute minimum working set size of 8 times the size of oldfile.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr bspatch 1
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Colin Percival Aq cperciva@daemonology.net