[WEB4LIB] File comparing software

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 rhiebert at sd6.bc.ca wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for software (freeware would be nice . . .) to compare two large
> files -- far too large to be loaded into memory. All the freeware / shareware
> I've tried relies on loading the files to be compared into memory. The files are
> not text files, so a byte-by-byte comparison is required. I'm using this
> software to verify that a file copy across two drives of our NT network was
> successful. Thanks.

The "DOS" commands include "fc" (file compare), which has a binary option:
   fc /b filename1 filename2

I would suspect it would NOT load the entire files into memory.

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