Re: What do I use for a binary diff (like MPW's "Equal?")

• Subject: Re: What do I use for a binary diff (like MPW's "Equal?")
• From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:47:17 -0700
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On May 29, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Dan Smith wrote:

Not xcode itself, but programming tools related, so I hope this is the right mailing list to ask.

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 interpreting the files as text and displaying garbage. The command-line UNIX "diff" tool seems to be essentially a text tool, corresponding to MPW's "CompareFiles" rather than to "Equal."

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Chris
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