Re: binary diff command

From: Richard Atkinson (rga24_at_hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 2000-02-07 17:11:56

D'OH!!!

It's called the 'hex' command. That'll do the trick...

Sorry guys!


Richard

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Richard Atkinson wrote:

> I'm sure this topic has come up before, but I don't recall the outcome -
> is there any way under Unix to do a binary compare of two files? Something
> like diff but operating on arbitrary binary files rather than text.
> 
> Alternatively, some way of converting binaries into ascii hex files would
> be useful because then they could simply be sent to the regular unix
> diff. Perhaps it could even insert carriage return characters after every
> 16 or 32 bytes for clarity.
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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