Hi Chris (and others: David Fox, Matt Smith, MB),
Thanks for your response to my devious (?) question.
I don't know much about *gif related stuff other than
seeing they are being displayed nicely on my X-window.
I do have a desire to see how two *.gif are different.
Once you know where is the change, then you can make
further modifications to a *.gif file. I hope I am
not asking too much.
The solution may be sit inside some graphic package
like gimp (as MB mentioned in his e-mail) which I need
to learn. Also this morning, I found there is a command
'tiffcmp' on my RedHat5.0 which says can compare two
image files - haven't tried yet.
BTW, you mentioned about 'xdelta'. I cannot locate in
my RedHat5.0. What kind of Linux are you running?
Thanks!
Philip
> > > 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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