On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, David E. Fox wrote:
> > I cannot handle this gif file under Linux. If it is a text
> > file, I can use diff to compare their changes. I am just
> > trying to find a way to compare two *.gif files.
>
> I don't see how it could be done, other than a low level binary diff or
> Unix 'cmp' function, which would, in the latter case, just tell you that
> the two binary files are different. I think there are such things as
> binary diff programs out there, but having them tell you that byte 1026 is
> now a 7F instead of a 1E (and so forth) doesn't tell me much, other than
> they're different.
Look at the 'xdelta' program, which can create small diff files for
binaries.
If you're just after seeing if two files are different or not, then 'cmp'
will do that job just fine.
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