Short: Compare two dirs for different files, V1.1 Author: Martin Gierich Uploader: Martin Gierich Type: util/cli Version: 1.1 (5.10.97) Architecture: m68k-amigaos Kurz: Vegleicht zwei Verzeichnisse miteinander, V1.1 New for V1.1 (5.10.97): ReadArgs() interface added, NOIDENT option added, Copyright notice changed. CompareDirs allows you to compare the directory stucture of two directories and it compares all files, that can be found in both directories and all subdirectories, byte by byte. This is very useful for checking a backup of your harddisk on CD-recordable or another mass storage medium. Since it really compares all files, that will be output as identical, byte by byte you can be sure that no error occured during backing up. It is also practical to check for differences since the last backup. And if you have got a new archive of a program you already have, CompareDirs allows you to check it out for different files. The calling syntax is: CompareDirs [] [NOIDENT} or as a argument template: DIR1/A,DIR2/A,RESULTFILE,NOIDENT/S where dir1 and dir2 are the two directories to be compared and resultfile is an optional argument that specifies where output should be written to. By default all output goes to stdout, that means you will see it in the console window. The NOIDENT switch allows surpressing output of identical files. The output looks like: ---------------- snip ---------------- RAM:> CompareDirs DEVS: RAM:devs Scanning directory DEVS: Scanning directory RAM:devs Comparing files Showing results Identical files: DOSDrivers.info (1650) DOSDrivers/ (0) DOSDrivers/AUX (118) DOSDrivers/AUX.info (1813) mountlist (4252) parallel.device (4292) printer.device (27420) serial.device (5412) system-configuration (232) Files only in DEVS: : DOSDrivers/PC0 (787) DOSDrivers/PC0.info (1824) Mountlist.bak (4135) Files only in RAM:devs : bla.device (5712) Different files: clipboard.device (6944) mfm.device (6780 <-> 3848) ---------------- snip ---------------- Copyright (excerpt): CompareDirs is Freeware and comes with source code. This means you are allowed to distribute it (unmodified and with source code and this readme) and you can use it for free. It is still copyrighted by me. Author: Martin Gierich EMail: Martin.Gierich@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de Homepage: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uj3w/