No, I am using Win NT.
Regards,
Mark
Surrey,UK
> Does your system have the 'cmp' program on it? IIRC this is a standard or
> fairly standard Unix utility which does exactly what you want and you could
> just call it from Perl...
>Regards
>
>Mark Bedish
>Surrey,UK
>
>
>In a message dated Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:36:50 British Summer Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>
> > >>>>> "Jos" == Jos I Boumans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Jos> if you're just interested in *EXACTLY* the same files, use MD5
> (get it from
> > Jos> search.cpan.org)
> > Jos> even one BIT of difference (literally) will result in a different
> checksum
> > Jos> thorough and fast
> >
> > MD5 is useful when you don't want to use the original data to compare
> > (or no longer have access to it). But if you've got both big files
> > sitting in front of you, it's a waste to compute md5(one) == md5(two).
> > Instead, just get File::Compare from the CPAN, which does a very
> > efficient comparison: first length, then big-block by big-block
> > equality.
> >
> > print "Just another Perl hacker,";
> >
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