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- From: krc@wam.umd.edu (Kevin R. Coombes)
- Subject: Re: where is fc (file compare) ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.182114.4467@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:21:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.133109.26503@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> chan@holo.iitsg.nrc.ca (Les Chan) writes:
- >
- >
- >In the redbook volume 2 they list some new commands for os2 2.0,
- >which were introduced to IBM DOS 5.0. One program is fc "Intelligent
- >file compare utility", but I can't find this anywhere. I find that
- >comp is nearly useless and most MSDOSs had fc since version 3.3.
- >Is this utility really missing or is it just me?
- >
- >
- >Les
-
- It's not just you. When I first got OS/2, I hunted through to see what
- was missing from DOS 5.0, and FC was the only thing I thought I would
- miss. I was quite surprised when Redbook volume 2 said it had been
- added after all -- I still haven't seen it!
-
- Kevin Coombes <krc@math.umd.edu>
-