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Re: What do I use for a binary diff (like MPW's "Equal?")
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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: Dan Smith <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:40:00 -0400

> 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."

x-man-page://cmp

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