Hi Larry,
Hmm.. I never tried forcing diff to treat a binary as text.. sounds pretty evil :) I guess you'd want to redirect this to a file right away if there is likely to be one or more non-printable characters. And then, what could one really do with this output? -- Rob On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:49:48AM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: > George xu writes: > > > > I have a binary file in cvs, How to diff the binary file? > > With "cvs diff". You may have to use -a (or --text) to convince diff to > do more than just tell you they're different, and the result may or may > not be meaningful, depending on what's really in the file. > > -Larry Jones > > Rats. I can't tell my gum from my Silly Putty. -- Calvin > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
