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: Dan Smith <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:39:23 -0400
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> 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

Thanks! No further replies needed.
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