Hello there,

Within linux (and probably other unix flavors), you can use the "strings"
command line tool to check printable character sequences in any file.  Use
"man strings" at a terminal window, for more help using it.

The screenshot you sent has dots for non-printables characters, so I
believe that showing only printable chars would be enough

You can apply the "strings" tools to each file you want to compare, save
each output to a temp file, and then diff/meld those temp files.

Anyways, it would be nice to have meld doing this automatically for
non-text files, when "strings" is available.

Best regards,
Fábio

2012/2/23 <[email protected]>

> Hi all,
> as I wrote earlier, I'm changing from windows to linux.
> Under windows I used the comparison tool "Compare It".
> This tool has a nice feature I'm missing a little bit in meld.
> You can compare binary files like e. g. bitmaps.
> We use it to compare our whole project-folders which also
>
> contain binary data saved by our applications.
>
> Would be nice to have this in meld, nevertheless meld is a great tool!
> I attached a screen shot of a binary comparison.
>
> Regards,
> Claudio
>
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