Obviously I converted all the output from cmp to hexadecimal which was wat I needed for my application. For convenience, here I attach the same test case using cmp's native output, with no fancy formatting.
---[cut here]--- Comparing "a.dat" and "b.dat" using cmp 5 0 140 24 222 357 65 143 103 66 44 45 87 143 103 88 44 45 Comparing "a.dat" and "b.dat" using od and diff 0000004 0 96 0000023 146 239 0000064 99 67 0000065 36 37 0000086 99 67 0000087 36 37 ---[cut here]--- -Alain
cmpbug2.tar.gz
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