On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Alain Kalker wrote:
Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the byte
positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally bogus.
The output values even contain values that are 255. What gives?!
The values are shown in octal.
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On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:11 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Alain Kalker wrote:
Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the
byte
positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally
bogus.
The output values even contain values that are 255.
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-12
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Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the byte
positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally bogus.
The output values even contain values that are 255. What gives?!
I attach a small test case using files
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