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2024-03-20 Thread crg--- via Freedos-user
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Re: [Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user
You mean it would list filenames differing from a Dir /foo and Dir /fuzz like in a diff program? > On 20.03.2024, at 08:55, hms--- via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Does any know of a directory comparison program? > John > > > ___ > Freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread hms--- via Freedos-user
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Re: [Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread hms--- via Freedos-user
Yes indeed. It would be recursive too. Report the absence or presence of files/ directories, differences of file sizes, date/ time. On 2024/03/20 10:38, Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote: You mean it would list filenames differing from a Dir /foo and Dir /fuzz like in a diff program? On

Re: [Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Hi John, Could You help us help you more by sharing a bit about your goals? Are you wanting to compare directory to learn if all files were moved from one place to another, as if doing a backup to a USB drive? Are you wanting to check file attributes? Are you wanting to compare the kind of

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread hms--- via Freedos-user
Hi Karen The problem arises out of using QEMU under Linux. If I mount the virtual C: drive and copy files to it, the date/ time stamps of the files are changed to the time that the copy took place. I depend on the date/ time stamp to sort files. It is vital that I retain them. Copying files

Re: [Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread hms--- via Freedos-user
Yes indeed. It would be recursive too. Report the absence or presence of files/ directories, differences of file sizes, date/ time. On 2024/03/20 10:38, Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote: You mean it would list filenames differing from a Dir /foo and Dir /fuzz like in a diff program? On

Re: [Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
You could try a DOS port of (GNU, diffutils?) "diff", for example from the Delorie DJGPP compiler website. Diff can be used to list differences in text content of files or directories full of files, but you can also use it with options "-qr" to just get a list which files only exist in which of