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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Utilities
Message-ID: <8985@claris.com>
Date: 1 Mar 89 21:32:43 GMT
References: <1005@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <1005@blake.acs.washington.edu> cent@blake.acs.washington.edu (Bob Cent) writes:
>
>Greetings-
>
>Our group is making the transition to the Mac from the DEC 11/73 and there
>is one particularly difficult part in that jump.  I've grown accustomed to 
>some basic tools like FILE DUMP and FILE COMPARE, to name a couple.  I would
>appreciate hearing from anyone that could direct me to such tools on the Mac.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob Cent

One possiblity is to use MPW and it's tools.  It comes with a basic compliment
of tools like DUMPFILE and COMPARE (the two you mention wanting).  There's
also a great script that builds on the COMPARE tool to give you a neat
side-by-side visual compare capability.  It's also (fairly) easy to write
your own scripts or even your own tools.  MPW isn't exactly the most Mac-ish
environment in the world, but coming from the PDP world (RSX? RSTS?) you 
should be right at home...

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