Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eurtrx!euraiv1!jvte From: jvte@euraiv1.UUCP (Jan van 't Ent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Using 720kb 3.5" as 1.44 meg disket Message-ID: <780@euraiv1.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 88 09:09:20 GMT References: <16800364@clio> Organization: Erasmus University EF/AIV,Rotterdam,Netherlands Lines: 5 > bad luck using fc to compare two non-text files. I think it's only > documented to work for text files. FC *can* be used on binary files (it has an /B switch for that purpose) but you *should* use COMP to test two supposedly-identical files.