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From: cur022@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: diff for binaries
Message-ID: <14657@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Feb 90 10:05:19 GMT
References: <7541@yunexus.UUCP>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <7541@yunexus.UUCP>, rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner) writes:
> Does anyone know of an MSDOS program like diff, but for binaries?
> I.e.  instead of being line oriented, it should report differences in
> terms of byte offsets.  Ideally, the comparison should have parameters
> to control the scan.

How about the MS-DOS program FC? I think all OEMs now supply it with DOS. The
/B switch does what you want. Also, a lot of vendors supply the old PC-DOS
COMP (that does the same thing).
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