Apparently "Diff" itself decided that EBCDIC does not fit its definition of "text" files, and a binary comparison is of no use to TkDiff. Sounds like you may need a EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion on the files to be able to use either/both tools. Sorry, not much we can do about that.
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Apparently "Diff" itself decided that EBCDIC does not fit its definition of "text" files, and a binary comparison is of no use to TkDiff. Sounds like you may need a EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion on the files to be able to use either/both tools. Sorry, not much we can do about that.