Thread: [Winmerge-support] WinMerge problem?
Windows visual diff and merge for files and directories
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From: David M. <dm...@ne...> - 2004-01-27 20:14:42
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Hello, This may be just an incorrect use of WinMerge but the first test below is certainly confusing. I've just downloaded and installed WinMerge. I tried in on one of my 'c' files and a previous version of same. Work just fine. Nice tool. I then tried it out on two very small binary files each containing the same data: 5 hex bytes: 31 32 34 35 00. WinMerge message: "Binary files are different" was displayed. Both windows showed: 1 2 3 4 (and a square symbol). I then compared two small 5 byte files containing the same data: hex bytes: 01 02 03 04 05. This produced the message: "Binary files cannot be visually compared" and no indication that they were identical. I then changed one byte in one of these files and re-compared them. This produced the same message with no indication that the files contained different data. I certainly would not use this tool visually compare of binary files but I wanted to check it on binary files since dir compares would in most cases involve compare of binary files. Thank you, A very nice diff tool. |