Compare(V37)                                         Compare(V37)


FORMAT
       COMPARE [[FILE1] file] [[FILE2] file] [[SKIP1] n] [[SKIP2]
       n] [QUIET]

TEMPLATE
       FILE1,FILE2,SKIP1/N,SKIP2/N,QUIET/S

PURPOSE
       To perform a byte-by-byte comparison of two files.

SPECIFICATION
       COMPARE compares the two files given by FILE1 and file2.
       If only one file is given, the default input is used for
       the other. It is an error if both FILE1 and FILE2 2 are
       omitted. COMPARE makes no comment if the files are the
       same; if they differ, it reports the byte (in both decimal
       and hex) and line number at which the difference occured,
       or, that one file is an initial subsequence of the other.
       SKIP1 and SKIP2 are initial decimal byte offsets into
       FILE1 and FILE2 respectively. If the QUIET switch is used,
       COMPARE will print nothing for differing files; it will
       set the condition flag only. QUIET does not suppress the
       printing of error messages.

       The condition flag, RC, is set to 0 for identical files, 5
       (WARN) for different files, and 10 (ERROR) for bogus argu-
       ments like inaccessible files.

EXAMPLE
       If you want to express an offset in octal or hexadecimal,
       you can use EVAL (see EVAL(AmigaDOS)):

           1> COMPARE Foo Bar `EVAL 0x1FE`

SEE ALSO
       COMMON(V37)

UNIX EQUIVALENT
       cmp(1)

AUTHOR
       Torsten Poulin (torsten@diku.dk)

UNRESTRICTIONS
       COMPARE is free; anyone may redistribute copies of COMMPARE
       to anyone under the terms stated in the GNU General Public
       Licence, a copy of which accompanies each copy of COMPARE.

       Torsten Poulin encourages you to improve and extend COM-
       PARE, and urges that you contribute your extensions to the
       world.

Compare version 37.5       21 June 1993