Re: diff not working in Cream install on Windows XP 64-bit

On Oct 4, 4:13 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I get an E97 every time I try a diff, even after setting diffexpr to
> be empty. I've checked that I can create temporary files with a
> writefile([strftime("%c")],tempname()).
>
> So, this doesn't seem to be caused by tmp file access, a bad diffexpr,
> or any of the other usual suspects. See the following cmd.exe session,
> in a directory made by a fresh gvim 7.3.289 install (latest "Vim
> without Cream"):
>
> C:\>cd "Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73"
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>dir *.exe
>  Volume in drive C is Local Disk
>  Volume Serial Number is EA9A-15F2
>
>  Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73
>
> 07/28/1999  08:15 PM            73,728 diff.exe
> 08/29/2011  12:24 PM         2,667,008 gvim.exe
> 10/04/2011  04:06 PM            45,910 uninstall.exe
> 08/29/2011  12:25 PM         2,494,464 vim.exe
> 08/29/2011  12:24 PM             8,192 vimrun.exe
> 08/29/2011  12:24 PM            15,872 xxd.exe
>                6 File(s)      5,305,174 bytes
>                0 Dir(s)  206,321,045,504 bytes free
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>.\diff.exe --version
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>echo %errorlevel%
> -1073741819
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>
>
> Has anyone had success using the diff.exe included in the standard
> Cream install, on Windows XP 64-bit?

Is there anyone out there running vim on Windows XP 64-bit? I want to
know whether I'm alone in this.

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