On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:53:28 +0100 Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brian Sammon wrote: > > I need to compare two 70 MB files to see if they're different. If > I use diff (Windows 2000, either of two different diff versions), the > memory usage balloons up to around 140MB, as if it was loading both > files into memory. This can be a problem on the computer I want to > use it on, as there's not always 140MB of free memory available. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for how to deal with this? > > Suggestions like "Try this command-line option" or "Use this other > program" [preferably open-source] or "read the following website" > are welcome. > > Suggestions like "get more memory" are, well... > > > If you only want to know if they are different you can use > > diff -q > diff --brief > > Does that also need that much memory? That doesn't help (the memory usage is pretty much the same) Thanks for the suggestion, though. I hadn't thought of that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
