On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, at 03:06 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > Well, it's the binary-vs-text debate. It's easy to diff a text file > and determine what has changed, whereas diffing a binary only says IF > it has changed. >
It's binary data that is easily retrievable as rows, so can still be diffed. We have an in-house tool that will diff some or all selected tables in a DBC or folder with a copy of the same data in another folder, and produce HTML reports detailing what records were added/changed, with the changes nicely highlighted. So to my mind you have the choice of developing a diff tool that works natively on VFP row data as per above, or developing a tool that will dump out VFP row data to text and allow you to use third-party diff tools. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1446740422.3957769.430138777.2750e...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
