Refactor cmp(1) code and manpage
The algorithm had some areas which had potential for improvement. This should make cmp(1) faster. There have been changes to behaviour as well: 1) If argv[0] and argv[1] are the same, cmp(1) returns Same. 2) POSIX specifies the format of the difference-message to be: "%s %s differ: char %d, line %d\n", file1, file2, <byte number>, <line number> However, as cmp(1) operates on bytes, not characters, I changed it to "%s %s differ: byte %d, line %d\n", file1, file2, <byte number>, <line number> This is one example where the standard just keeps the old format for backwards-compatibility. As this is harmful, this change makes sense in the sense of consistentcy (and because we take the difference of char and byte very seriously in sbase, as opposed to GNU coreutils). The manpage has been annotated, reflecting the second change, and sections shortened where possible. Thus I marked cmp(1) as finished in README.
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