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===============================================================================
README Visual Binary Diff 3.0_beta1 11-Nov-2005
===============================================================================
Copyright 2000-5 Christopher J. Madsen
CONTENTS
========
[1] About Visual Binary Diff
[2] System Requirements
[3] Installation
[4] License
[5] Author
[1] About Visual Binary Diff
----------------------------
Visual Binary Diff (VBinDiff) displays files in hexadecimal and ASCII
(or EBCDIC). It can also display two files at once, and highlight
the differences between them. Unlike B<diff>, it works well with
large files (up to 4 GB).
VBinDiff was inspired by the Compare Files function of the ProSel
utilities by Glen Bredon, for the Apple II. When I couldn't find a
similar utility for the PC, I wrote it myself.
The single-file mode was inspired by the LIST utility of 4DOS and
friends (http://www.jpsoft.com/4ntdes.htm). While less
(http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/) provides a good line-oriented
display, it has no equivalent to LIST's hex display. (True, you can
pipe the file through hexdump, but that's incredibly inefficient on
multi-gigabyte files.)
[2] System Requirements
-----------------------
Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, or later
or
A POSIX-compatible system with ncurses (eg, Linux)
It should be possible to port the ncurses version to work with other
curses libraries (as long as they provide the panel library), but I
don't have access to such a system. Patches are welcome.
[3] Installation
----------------
VBinDiff uses the standard GNU autoconf system. See the file INSTALL if
you're not familiar with that.
[4] License
-----------
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
The GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
[5] Author
----------
Christopher J. Madsen cjm@pobox.com
1113 Abrams Rd. Apt. 296
Richardson, TX 75081-5573
VBinDiff Home Page:
http://www.pobox.com/~cjm/vbindiff/
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