"Black, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Slightly O/T - just to say that CHECKSUM does not always produce different
>> results, even on very different files.]
>
> Also be warned that same file (when backed up and restored) might have a
> DIFFERENT checksum. This can be caused by data "hidden" beyond the end of
> file byte for the file.
Well, damn.
Okay, well maybe DIFF is the right way to go...I just wish that the $STATUS
values for differ/same were something other than "random strings of hex
digits". If they had values that we could use F$message to translate, for
example.
Hmm...looks like the message is in SYS$MESSAGE:PRGDEVMSG (on my system)
%DIF-S-SAMEFILE, files are identical
%DIF-I-FILAREDIF, files are different
And the two status code correspond to "ID#s" 1 and 2 (with different
severity, of course).
I'll see about cooking up a patch based on DIFF and see how it goes.
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