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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using 720kb 3.5" as 1.44 meg disket[truncated]
Summary: Using fc to compare binary files
Message-ID: <3870@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 16:04:42 GMT
References: <5930015@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <16800364@clio>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <16800364@clio> berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Do you REALLY have confidence in your testing methods?  I've had very
>bad luck using fc to compare two non-text files.  I think it's only
>documented to work for text files.

The version of "fc" that was distributed with MS-DOS 2.11 for the DEC
Rainbow accepts the "/b" switch to make it compare binary files
byte-for-byte.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi