Re: Why not diff binaries?

[Chris Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>]

Hm? I use diff on binaries all the time.. -chris


On 17 Jul 2000, Lee Willis wrote:

> rjs@isil.lloke.dna.fi (Riku Saikkonen) writes:
> 
> > "Pavel M. Penev" <kal_pav@sz.techno-link.com> writes:
> > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent
> > >for binary file?
> > 
> > There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first
> > differing byte (if any).
> 
> "cmp -l" will report all the differences I believe ...
> 
> Lee
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