On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 23:54, Bill Ricker N1VUX wrote: > > have a better suggestion for creating diffs of files? Files being of > > unspecified format and size, that is. Trying to cobble something together > > that's as generic as possible. > > Generic as possible for binary ... no, you really need to assume SOME sort of > structure to know what the resyncronizing points are. Check out xdelta: http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html
That page says a lot about xdelta, but in its simplest form it's just a commandline utility that works like diff/patch but can handle binary files. The guts are broken out into libxdelta as well, and I found perl bindings for that with a google search (not on CPAN). -- Jeremy _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
