Hi
I have written some piece of code that copies chunks of big files to a remote machine. Now I would like to figure out if I really copied all the bits into the right place by comparing those two files on a byte-per-byte basis. Is there some tool for windows that allows me to do that? I guess Linux has such a tool already built in, doesn't it?
Many thanks, Paul
Comparing "byte-per-byte" is probably excessive. That would be equivalent to copying the file again. Build a checksum for each copied portion and compare the checksum value. You can also use the unix command cksum. You can get the same thing on windows with the CoreUtils package.
There are tonnes of tools that provide that functionality. Just google for one. I personally use Beyond Compare which is outstanding. However it costs but there are others such as windiff which are free.