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Re: What do I used for a binary diff, like MPW's "Equal?"

Subject: Re: What do I used for a binary diff, like MPW's "Equal?"
From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:06:17 -0700
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On May 29, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Dan Smith wrote:

Also posted to the xcode list; not sure where I should ask, apologies to those reading both lists.

In the MPW environment, the tool for comparing binary files is the "Equal" command; in Windows, it's "fc" with the /B option.
What's the appropriate Mac OS X tool for comparing binary files?
(filemerge.app doesn't seem to be at all well suited for this, it insists on interpreting the files as text and displaying garbage. And the command-line UNIX "diff" tool seems to be essentially a text tool, corresponding to MPW's "CompareFiles" rather than to "Equal.")


See x-man-page://cmp or x-man-page://diff

(that is, see the man page for cmp or diff unix command line tools)

b.bum

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