Chapter 6 / Command Reference
Examples
f c / b t
est
1 . s
ret
est
2 . s r c >t
est
3 . s r c I
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does a
binary
comparison of
the
files Test1.src and Test2.src
that
are
in
the
current
directory, and redirects output to
the
file
Test3.src
that
is also
in
the
current
directory.
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•
You
can redirect FC-s output to a file
by
appending )
tar
-
ge
t
pa
t
hname
to
the
FC command. For example, to send
the
output of
the
above command to
the
file Differ.src
in
the
current
directory, type:
f c / b f i 1e 1 . s
ref
1 1 e 2 . s r c ) d
iff
e r . s r c I
ENTER
I
If
the
number of lines
in
the
internal buffer is smaller
than
the
number of consecutive, differing lines, FC stops.
It
displays:
resynch
failed.
Files
are
too
different
Then,
it
returns
to
the
MS-DOS system prompt.
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fc
/4/w/c
b;\user\myfile.src
b : \
use
r \
my
f 1 1e 1 • s r c I
ENTER
I
does a
line-by-line
comparison of
B:
\
USER
\ Myfile.src
and
B:
\ USER\ Myfile1.src, compressing white spaces and ignoring
case. After FC finds a mismatch,
at
least four lines
in
a row
must
match
for
the
file to be considered matching.
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