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- Short: v1.0, compare 2 binary file (with source)
- Author: Nicolas Pomarede (pomarede@isty-info.uvsq.fr)
- Uploader: Nicolas Pomarede (pomarede@isty-info.uvsq.fr)
- Type: dev/c
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- This small tool compares 2 binary files and display the position of
- differing bytes.
- The functionnalities are rather limited, but it's fast.
- I coded this small tool in a hurry because I needed a program
- to compare many binary files, that could be used as a shell command
- (no window or things like that) and that would return a simple
- value depending on the result of the comparison (useful in scripts).
- By default, the differing positions are printed, but this can be
- turned off with the '-q' switch.
-
- Files are read 20000 bytes at a time, and there's no limitation on
- their length.
- If files don't have the same length, only the common parts are compared.
-
- After a comparison, the return codes are:
- 0 files are identical (DOS OK)
- 5 files are different (DOS WARN)
- 10 a system error occured (no memory, error reading, ...) (DOS ERROR)
- These codes can then be used in an 'IF' test.
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-
- Requirements:
- - any AmigaDOS (tested on 1.3), any CPU.
- - 40 Kb of free mem.
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- Version 1.0, 03/02/1997 by Nicolas Pomarede
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