On 06/02/15 15:57, Tyler Beaver wrote:
> I know this tool is probably note used as much anymore, but perhaps it would
> be worth adding a flag for overriding the verbose output number system for
> the values, or at any rate specifying that this output is in octal, and not
> decimal or hexadecimal.
Currently: offsets are decimal, differing bytes are octal:
$ cmp -l <(echo 12345678abc) <(echo 12345678bbb)
9 141 142
11 143 142
This works the same on all unix systems.
What would changing base provide except ambiguity?
thanks,
Pádraig.
