Re: Two 1541-II drives with problems

On Friday 25 April 2014, you wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:16:29PM +0200, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> >       diff - compare files line by line
> >
> >But diff can be used as well. 
> 
> To compare binary files that are of the same size, I often do something
> like this:
> 
> od -Ax -t x1 file1.bin > file1.txt
> od -Ax -t x1 file2.bin > file2.txt
> 
> diff -u file1.txt file2.txt
> 
> Actually, I usually do not construct the file2.txt, but compare it
> on-the-fly:
> 
> od -Ax -t x1 file2.bin | diff -u file1.txt -
> 
> These should work on any Unix. In the past, I used a program called
> "hexdump" in some GNU/Linux distributions.

vbindiff is a nice tool for this kind of stuff, most distros should have a 
package :)

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