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From: pvr@wang.com (Peter Reilley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: program to list differences amoung files
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Date: 22 Mar 91 14:03:10 GMT
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In article <2665@bnlux0.bnl.gov> kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:
>What is a good program to look at several files and list in a human readable
>format the differences? I think VMS Difference is a pretty good example of 
>this. What do people use for msdos? Are there any unix ports?

	One visual method of comparing files is to use beav (Binary Editor And
Viewer).   Beav was posted to alt.sources a few weeks ago and should
be appearing in comp.sources.unix and comp.binaries.ibm.pc shortly.

	Beav is intended for binary files but can handle any file format.  
To do the compare, open two windows and load the two files in the two windows.
Position the cursor in the two windows to the point at which the compare 
is to start.   Issue the compare command and beav will advance the cursor
in both windows to the first non-matching byte.

	Peter Reilley	pvr@wang.com