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- FC-MDOS.EXE and FC-OS2.EXE (c)1993 Hearty Mosquito SoftWare
- Version 1.0
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- Hearty Mosquito SoftWare is not responsible for anything.
- Use at your own risk.
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- If you like and use this program, send $5 to:
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- Hearty Mosquito SoftWare
- 4216 29th Ave. S.
- Minneapolis, MN 55406
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- FC-MDOS and FC-OS2
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- For some reason, IBM declined or neglected to provide a File Compare program
- for OS/2's command lines, the OS/2 system command line or OS/2's DOS command
- line.
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- There -is- a COMP command, but they are not the same.
- Check your MS-DOS manual to see the differences between COMP and FC.
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- The MS-DOS version of FC checks the operating system version before running, and
- the copy of FC.EXE that was included with your pre-OS/2 version of DOS.
- will probably not run at an OS/2-DOS command line.
- FCMP doesn't care what version of what OS you're running.
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- ---------- INSTALLATION: --------------------------------
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- The two executable files are functionally the same. One is for the OS/2 command
- line, the other is for the OS/2-DOS command line. Copy them to the appropriate
- directory, which in the default OS/2 setup would be:
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- COPY FC-MDOS.EXE C:\OS2\MDOS\FCMP.EXE
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- and
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- COPY FC-OS2.EXE C:\OS2\APPS\FCMP.EXE
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- Now you can just type FCMP at any OS/2 system prompt and you're cooking!
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- ---------- SYNTAX: --------------------------------------
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- FCMP [/B] [/L] [/C] [/N] [filename] [filename]
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- /B Perform a binary comparison.
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- The default mode if the first filespec has an .EXE, .SYS, .COM, .BIN, .OBJ,
- or .LIB extension.
- Any other extension will be considered text unless this switch is used.
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- /L Compare files as ASCII text.
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- The default mode, unless the first filespec has an extension of .EXE,
- .SYS, .COM, .BIN, .OBJ, or .LIB.
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- /C Disregard the case of letters in an ASCII comparison.
- /N Display line numbers in an ASCII comparison.
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- These switches are only accepted for text comparisons. They will be ignored
- if the first filespec has an .EXE, .SYS, .COM, .BIN, .OBJ, or .LIB extension,
- or if the /B switch is used.
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- ---------- Other notes: ---------------------------------
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- Exit codes (errorlevels):
- 0 No difference in the files.
- 1 Error reading a file -or- 1 difference encountered in the files.
- 2-255 All other errorcodes indicate the number of differences found.
- In a text file, the number of lines that were different.
- In a binary file, the number of bytes that differed.
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- It may be convenient for you to rename FCMP.EXE to FC.EXE, if you are
- accustomed to using the DOS FC command. The syntax is roughly the same.
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- FCMP does not accept wildcards.
- If you want or need to do wildcards, write us and it can be added.
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- Unlike the MS-DOS FC.EXE command, FCMP only displays one line at a time in
- ASCII comparison, and -ONLY- that line. It does not display the lines precede
- and follow the lines that are different.
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