OpenEuphoria

Re: Check if files equal

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Jul 07, 2002
• 426 views

Kat wrote:

> On 7 Jul 2002, at 11:21, Juergen Luethje wrote:

>> Hi, Kat wrote:
>> 
>> > On 7 Jul 2002, at 1:51, 10963508 at europeonline.com wrote:
>>                           ^^^^^^^^
>> It would be nice, to see a name here. (Just my opinion.)

> This isn't my problem, you know. 

I know that, of course. Sorry if it looked as if I was meaning you!
I wrote it there because I assume, that the one who starts a thread,
reads all the posts in it.


When you want to discuss about a text, please don't snip the decisive
part away! Here it is again, what I wrote in my previous post:
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If both files don't have the same size, it's 100% sure that they are
not equal. If they have the same size, further testing is needed.
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>> The same logic goes for CRC tests and the comparison of random bytes.

> To get a CRC, you need to perform math on all the bytes.

I know.

> How will you get that math done, if you don't read all the bytes?

I didn't write that. In the above text between the two lines, just
replace "size" with "CRC", and then you'll see what I mean.

> Kat

Regards,
   Juergen