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    <td class="head-ltitle">MCDIFF(1)</td>
    <td class="head-vol">GNU Midnight Commander</td>
    <td class="head-rtitle">MCDIFF(1)</td>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">mcdiff - Internal diff viewer of GNU Midnight Commander.</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="USAGE"><a class="permalink" href="#USAGE">USAGE</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><b>mcdiff</b> [-bcCdfhstVx?] file1 file2</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">mcdiff is a link to <b>mc</b>, the main GNU Midnight Commander
    executable. Executing GNU Midnight Commander under this name requests
    starting the internal diff viewer which compares <i>file1</i> and
    <i>file2</i> specified on the command line.</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="OPTIONS"><a class="permalink" href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></h1>
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  <dt id="b"><a class="permalink" href="#b"><i>-b</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Force black and white display.</dd>
  <dt id="c"><a class="permalink" href="#c"><i>-c</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Force color mode on terminals where <b>mcdiff</b> defaults to black and
      white.</dd>
  <dt id="C"><a class="permalink" href="#C"><i>-C
    &lt;keyword&gt;=&lt;fgcolor&gt;,&lt;bgcolor&gt;,&lt;attributes&gt;:&lt;keyword&gt;=
    ...</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Specify a different color set. See the <b>Colors</b> section in mc(1) for
      more information.</dd>
  <dt id="d"><a class="permalink" href="#d"><i>-d</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable mouse support.</dd>
  <dt id="f"><a class="permalink" href="#f"><i>-f</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Display the compiled-in search paths for Midnight Commander files.</dd>
  <dt id="t"><a class="permalink" href="#t"><i>-t</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Used only if the code was compiled with S-Lang and terminfo: it makes the
      Midnight Commander use the value of the <b>TERMCAP</b> variable for the
      terminal information instead of the information on the system wide
      terminal database</dd>
  <dt id="V"><a class="permalink" href="#V"><i>-V</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Displays the version of the program.</dd>
  <dt id="x"><a class="permalink" href="#x"><i>-x</i></a></dt>
  <dd>Forces xterm mode. Used when running on xterm-capable terminals (two
      screen modes, and able to send mouse escape sequences).</dd>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="COLORS"><a class="permalink" href="#COLORS">COLORS</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The default colors may be changed by appending to the
    <b>MC_COLOR_TABLE</b> environment variable. Foreground and background colors
    pairs may be specified for example with:</p>
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<pre>MC_COLOR_TABLE=&quot;$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\
normal=lightgray,black:\
selected=black,green&quot;</pre>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="FILES"><a class="permalink" href="#FILES">FILES</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><i>/__w/mc/mc/install-prefix/share/mc/mc.hlp</i></p>
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  <dt></dt>
  <dd>The help file for the program.</dd>
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<p class="Pp"><i>/__w/mc/mc/install-prefix/share/mc/mc.ini</i></p>
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  <dt></dt>
  <dd>The default system-wide setup for GNU Midnight Commander, used only if the
      user's own ~/.config/mc/ini file is missing.</dd>
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<p class="Pp"><i>/__w/mc/mc/install-prefix/share/mc/mc.lib</i></p>
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  <dt></dt>
  <dd>Global settings for the Midnight Commander. Settings in this file affect
      all users, whether they have ~/.config/mc/ini or not.</dd>
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<p class="Pp"><i>~/.config/mc/ini</i></p>
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  <dt></dt>
  <dd>User's own setup. If this file is present, the setup is loaded from here
      instead of the system-wide startup file.</dd>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="LICENSE"><a class="permalink" href="#LICENSE">LICENSE</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
    Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the
    built-in help of the Midnight Commander for details on the License and the
    lack of warranty.</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="AVAILABILITY"><a class="permalink" href="#AVAILABILITY">AVAILABILITY</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The latest version of this program can be found at
    https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/midnightcommander/ .</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE
  ALSO</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">mc(1), mcedit(1), mcview(1)</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="BUGS"><a class="permalink" href="#BUGS">BUGS</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">Bugs should be reported to
    https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/issues .</p>
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    <td class="foot-date">March 2025</td>
    <td class="foot-os">MC Version 52e18d0</td>
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