Andre wrote:

put the md5digest of url ("binfile:" & path1) into tMD5file1
put the md5digest of url ("binfile:" & path2) into tMD5file2
if tMD5file1 is tMD5file2 then
  return true
else
  return false
end if

Andre, you've been programming too deeply for too long. :)

MD5digest is great for storing small signatures of large files, but since the function reads the full file contents it can simply use:

  if url ("binfile:"& path1) is url ("binfile:"& path2) then
  ...

You're not alone: this morning I caught myself writing 20 beautifully complex lines to do something that later occurred to me could be done in a single line that was much easier to read. :)

The seductive beauty of RevTalk....

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