| Kenny McCormack 2004-03-19, 8:23 pm |
| In article <dFtXb.178877$U%5.856423@attbi_s03>,
T-Rex <Rex_Bryan@csi.com> wrote:
>Is there a way to compare two binary files to determine at what byte counts
>the files are different?
>I finally found a random \r\n in one file where only a \n existed in the
>other. My numerous file editors
>don't show this...so visually the two "happy face" files always looked the
>same...but they were slighly different in
>size. My diff program I have failed me on this as it compares ascii line by
>line. It found the difference but it reported
>it as a line number, not helpful in a binary file!
>I solved it with a lot of labor by using PEDIT in hexdisplay mode from an
>old old Wordperfect distribution!
>I was thinking...perhaps a simple awk program would do the trick (?)
>I'm working in Windows 2000.
Does 2K have FC (I know '98 does) ?
FC works well enough for this task - by MS standards anyway.
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