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RE: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?


Kenneth Chiu sent the following at Monday, October 26, 2009 2:29 PM
>
>Considering that I only want to know whether or not two files differ,
>this should not require any significant memory usage. (In other words,
>don't use mmap().)

If you only want to know whether or not they are identical, use cmp.

- Barry

"Get the right tool for the right job."

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