COMP

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Supported DOS versions:	MS-DOS 1 - 5
How easy to use?	Very easy
How safe to use?	Very safe
How common?	Fairly common
Internal or external command?	External

Description

Compares two files and displays any differences.

Command Syntax

COMP [file1] [file2] [/d] [/a] [/l] [/n=nnn] [/c]

(The command line parameters may only be used in DOS 5)

file1 and file2 are the files to compare. You may use wildcards
/d displays differences as decimal numbers (instead of hex numbers)
/a displays differences as ASCII characters (instead of hex numbers)
/l displays differences by line number instead of file position
/n compares only nnn lines in each file
/c ignores differences between upper and lower case

If you don't have DOS 5 or you miss out file1 and file2, you will be asked for the filenames to compare

Comments

If the files are the same, "Files compare OK" will be printed.

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