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berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu (09/07/88)

Do you REALLY have confidence in your testing methods?  I've had very
bad luck using fc to compare two non-text files.  I think it's only
documented to work for text files.

			Mike Berger
			Department of Statistics 
			Science, Technology, and Society
			University of Illinois 

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jvte@euraiv1.UUCP (Jan van 't Ent) (09/08/88)

> bad luck using fc to compare two non-text files.  I think it's only
> documented to work for text files.
FC *can* be used on binary files (it has an /B switch for that purpose)
but you *should* use COMP to test two supposedly-identical files.
<Jan v't Ent>