activity="compare variable display 0"
perl -pi -e 's/^\s*$//g' $TEMPDIR/pspp.list
-diff $TEMPDIR/pspp.list - <<EOF
+diff -b $TEMPDIR/pspp.list - <<EOF
1.1 DISPLAY.
+--------+-------------------------------------------+--------+
|Variable|Description |Position|
# Check that the file read back in has the same data as what we wrote.
activity="compare print"
-diff $TEMPDIR/out.txt $TEMPDIR/data
+diff -b $TEMPDIR/out.txt $TEMPDIR/data
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then fail ; fi
activity="compare variable display"
perl -pi -e 's/^\s*$//g' $TEMPDIR/pspp.list
-diff $TEMPDIR/pspp.list - <<EOF
+diff -b $TEMPDIR/pspp.list - <<EOF
1.1 DISPLAY.
+--------+-------------------------------------------+--------+
|Variable|Description |Position|