[Gpsbabel-code] Re: testo and binary files

[Ron P. <ro...@gw...>]

At 02:31 PM 5/14/2004 -0500, Robert Lipe wrote:
 >Ron Parker wrote:
 >
 >>    Now  that  we  have  the GPSBABEL_FREEZE_TIME thing, I'm contemplating
 >>    adding this to the top of testo:
 >>
 >>           OD=${OD:-od -Ax -txC -v}
 >
 >Is this save the pain of "oops, I broke something and now I have
 >to figure out what"?   (Not that this is a bad goal, mind you. :-)

More or less.

To be entirely honest, I had always assumed that diff just choked on
binary files, because that's what the bastardized version of diff that
was included with some precambrian version of Borland C++ did.  I see,
now, that it does a binary compare and outputs a single line saying
they're different if they indeed are.  However, I still like my version
for two reasons:

Reason the first, the one you said: it actually tells us what the
difference was, rather than making us look for it.

Reason the second, mkwintesto needs to know whether it's a binary
compare or not, so why not make it friendlier on Unix as long as we
have to distinguish it somehow anyway?