Re: Two 1541-II drives with problems

From: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe_at_uffe.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:31:52 +0200
Message-ID: <53925D78.4000202@uffe.org>
On 2014-04-25 21:44, Groepaz wrote:
> 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 :)
>

dhex (unix curses application) can do visual hex diffs between two files 
- and many many more things

http://www.dettus.net/dhex/

/Uffe :-)




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