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Rich Pasco
I'm using Windows XP Professional SP3.
I'm trying to compare pairs of binary files and test the result
through the errorlevel. I thought "fc" would do the job, but it
seems to fail by reporting a mismatch between certain pairs of
identical files.
Please refer to the transcript below. First I copy a raw file to
a temporary file, and verify that the copy was successful: It was:
Now, I use "fc" to compare the same two files:
Notice that a mismatch is reported! This should not be!
Next, I use fc to compare the copy to itself:
Of course. But why didn't I get the same result above?
Here are the versions of the tools I am using:
- Rich
I'm trying to compare pairs of binary files and test the result
through the errorlevel. I thought "fc" would do the job, but it
seems to fail by reporting a mismatch between certain pairs of
identical files.
Please refer to the transcript below. First I copy a raw file to
a temporary file, and verify that the copy was successful: It was:
Now, I use "fc" to compare the same two files:
Notice that a mismatch is reported! This should not be!
Next, I use fc to compare the copy to itself:
Of course. But why didn't I get the same result above?
Here are the versions of the tools I am using:
- Rich