OpenEuphoria

Re: Verify01.exw Al

• Posted by don cole <doncole at p?c?ell.net> Jul 21, 2007
• 699 views

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> don cole wrote:
> > 
> > Al Getz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Don,
> > > 
> > > Sorry i didnt understand your question quite right as i read it
> > > too fast.  I thought you were asking about how to enter two paths
> > > that were different.
> > > 
> > > My program was made to compare whole *directories*, not individual
> > > files.  You enter two paths but the paths are directory names
> > > such as:
> > > c:\download\files\
> > > 
> > > At present, you cant point to an individual file unless you use a trick.
> > > 
> > > If you dont feel like updating it to do that, if
> > > you really want to compare two files, then one thing
> > > you can do is to copy the two files into two temp directories.
> > > You can then point to those directories.
> > > 
> > > See, when i made this program i wanted it to be able to dig down
> > > into sub directories to compare all the files, given only the
> > > root directory names.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Al
> > > 
> > > E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> > > 
> > 
> > Hello Al,
> > 
> >    I got that verify02 working with my program. It compares 2 directories 
> >    and
> > reports the files that are different. It does not however tell you which
> > line
> > numbers in the files are different. I think that's what you just said.  I
> > read
> > too fast sometimes also. I could send you what I have but I should email it.
> > It has several includes.
> > 
> > 
> > Don Cole
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> 
> Im glad you had some luck with it finally.
> 
> The report does not include any files line numbers because it does
> a binary compare, not a 'text' or 'line by line' compare.  I had
> it do a binary compare because many of the files are not text files
> (or euphoria source files) but are instead .exe files, .dll files,
> etc., with some text files too.
> I guess what you would want to see is the compare action taken 
> commensurate with the type of file?  I guess that's not a bad idea
> really.  We'd have to also supply a list of file extensions and
> how those files should be handled, but i guess that's not too much
> work to do.  On the other hand, the program would then also have to
> work with different formats, like .doc and .rtf and be able to 
> handle unicode.  Im not sure if i want to get into that myself
> even though it could be done.
> Maybe you want to be able to compare Euphoria source files too?
> 
> For now though it looks like it will compare in binary mode only,
> however it would not take much to get it to report exactly which
> byte was different, and then you could go back and open the files
> and provide a dump of part of the two files.  Even so, only the
> first difference found would be reported as (at least currently)
> the algo exits at the first difference found just after writing
> to the report file.
> 
> Another thing i should mention (and this is written in the file
> itself in a comment section) is that for two directories, call
> them A and B (and the variable names reflect this convention with
> their last letter being A and B respectively), the file names
> (and directory names) not found in B are reported (B is the backup)
> but the file names and dir names in B (if there are any) that are
> not in A are *not* reported.  This is because if for some reason
> you feel like including an extra file in the backup for some reason
> and you dont really need it on the hard drive, you dont have to
> skip reading it in the report file.  If this is a problem however,
> it doesnt take much to have the 'missing' A files (and dir names)
> reported in the report too.
> 
> BackupList.txt:
> The other convention used is that file names end with no backslash,
> while directory names *always* end with a backslash.  This is so
> another program can go through the list in the BackupList.txt file
> and detect when it has to write an entire directory to disk rather
> than a single file.  Writing an entire directory means writing
> the root files and every sub directory and all those files too,
> whereas writing a single missing file is a simple 'copy file'.
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!
> 
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> 

Thanks Al,

Don Cole