From 27c225e82651088466df607084ea2363373228f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 21:04:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add the specific sed statement to recover the second output
 file to the comments.

---
 Tools/scripts/ndiff.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py b/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py
index 2ba5e537059..4767d1f0113 100755
--- a/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py
+++ b/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 # ndiff file1 file2 -- a human-friendly file differencer.
 
 # $Revision$
-# $NoKeywords: $
 
 # SequenceMatcher tries to compute a "human-friendly diff" between
 # two sequences (chiefly picturing a file as a sequence of lines,
@@ -52,6 +51,12 @@
 # 3) Lines beginning with "? " attempt to guide the eye to intraline
 #    differences, and were not present in either input file.
 #
+# COROLLARY:
+# On Unix, the second file can be recovered by piping the output through
+#    sed -n '/^[+ ] /s/^..//p'
+# Modifications to recover the first file are left as an exercise for
+# the reader.
+#
 # NOTE on junk:  the module-level names
 #    IS_LINE_JUNK
 #    IS_CHARACTER_JUNK