sergio@squid.rtech.com (Sergio Aponte) (07/08/89)
I have a PS2/80 running AIX 1.1. Is there a utility that will let me compare 2 3.5 diskettes to each other? Put one on rfd0, one on rfd1 and see if they match byte per byte? Thanks. There is no PS2 or AIX group. I thought you guys might know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Internet: sergio@squid.rtech.com Sergio L. Aponte, MTS @ RTI | | UUCP: {sun,mtxinu,pyramid,pacbell,hoptoad,amdahl,cpsc6a}!rtech!squid!sergio | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000) (07/09/89)
From article <3060@rtech.rtech.com>, by sergio@squid.rtech.com (Sergio Aponte): > Is there a utility that will let me compare 2 3.5 diskettes to each > other? Put one on rfd0, one on rfd1 and see if they match byte per byte? diff /dev/rfd0 /dev/rfd1 | pg The '| pg' just pauses the output incase there are many differences. -- Ed Clarke acheron!clarke
njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) (07/09/89)
In article <3060@rtech.rtech.com> sergio@squid.UUCP (Sergio Aponte) writes: > I have a PS2/80 running AIX 1.1. > Is there a utility that will let me compare 2 3.5 diskettes to each > other? Put one on rfd0, one on rfd1 and see if they match byte per byte? > Thanks. There is no PS2 or AIX group. I thought you guys might know. Try "cmp /dev/rfd0 /dev/rfd1". Just a guess. Unfortunately, this is likely to take a fair while if it works like the RT does under AIX, because blocking will fail. To make things work better, use dd to read the files and specify a large ibs= which is a multiple of 512. Ed Clarke (hi, Ed) suggested using diff. cmp should be significantly faster, and is probably a better fit for "byte per byte" comparisons. -- Nick Simicich --- uunet!bywater!scifi!njs --- njs@ibm.com (Internet)