Option -L is not documented in the "diff --help" output (and as a consequence, in the generated diff.1 man page either). The doc/diffutils.info file contains '-L LABEL' '--label=LABEL' Use LABEL instead of the file name in the context format (*note Context Format::) and unified format (*note Unified Format::) headers. *Note RCS::. so " --label LABEL" should just be changed to "-L, --label LABEL" in src/diff.c. Patch attached. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)