Hi Stephan,
Am 04.06.2014 14:42, schrieb Stepan Kasal:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:13:44PM +0200, Thomas Braun wrote:
>> Wouldn't a function like test_cmp_bin() be better suited for all?
>
> I also considered it. The advantage is that is shows that
> this intentionally differs from test_cmp.
>
>
Hello Thomas,
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:13:44PM +0200, Thomas Braun wrote:
> Wouldn't a function like test_cmp_bin() be better suited for all?
I also considered it. The advantage is that is shows that
this intentionally differs from test_cmp.
> The windows folks can then use cmp inside test_cm
Am 04.06.2014 13:42, schrieb Stepan Kasal:
> test_cmp() is primarily meant to compare text files (and display the
> difference for debug purposes).
>
> Raw "cmp" is better suited to compare binary files (tar, zip, etc.).
>
> On MinGW, test_cmp is a shell function mingw_test_cmp that tries to
> re
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