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Re: variable-length strings

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On 06/02/2011 08:19 AM, Willem wrote:
> Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> ) ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.shell.]
> ) On 2011-06-01 09:36, Uno<Uno@example.invalid>  wrote:
> )>  There's no way I can look at these files with a hex editor and my eyes.
> )>    Doesn't unix have a built-in way to compare them?
> )
> ) There's cmp, but it only shows you where the first difference is.
>
> cmp -l shows all differences, as does cmp -x
>

The first output is with cmp -l.  By the time it's in the 200,000's, 
almost every one differs

  289458   5 102
  289459 333 200
  289460 342 133
  289461  15 254
  289462 153 120
  289463 161 151
  289464 373  37
  289465 304 122
  289466 331 103
  289467  43 130
  289468   1 321
  289469 372 264
  289470 203 317
  289471 374 107
  289472 351 255
  289473 376 200
^Ccmp before.avi after2.avi
before.avi after2.avi differ: byte 5, line 1
$

So, if byte 5 were simply omitted, the rest of the file wouldn't match 
except coincidentally.

Since corrupted media is so often the outcome I got, I wonder whether 
the transfer protocol is UDP for this type of download.
-- 
Uno

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variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-01 03:36 -0600
  Re: variable-length strings ccc31807 <cartercc@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 07:13 -0700
    Re: variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-02 10:54 -0600
  Re: variable-length strings "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun@hotmail.com.nospam> - 2011-06-01 17:01 +0300
  Re: variable-length strings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-02 15:33 +0200
  Re: variable-length strings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-02 15:44 +0200
    Re: variable-length strings Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-06-02 14:19 +0000
      cmp (was: variable-length strings) "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-02 18:15 +0200
      Re: variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-03 23:21 -0600
        Re: variable-length strings "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-06-04 02:43 -0400
    Re: variable-length strings bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-06-03 11:08 -0500
      Re: variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-04 00:03 -0600
        Re: variable-length strings pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-06-04 20:18 +0000
          Re: variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-07 23:00 -0600
      cmp (was: variable-length strings) "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-04 10:29 +0200
        Re: cmp Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-07 22:38 -0600
          Re: cmp pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-06-08 05:22 +0000
            Re: cmp Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 16:10 -0600
    Re: variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-03 22:58 -0600
      bdiff (was: variable-length strings) "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-04 10:52 +0200
        Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-08 21:59 -0600
          Re: bdiff Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-09 16:08 +1200
            Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-08 22:20 -0600
              Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 02:57 -0600
                Re: bdiff Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-09 11:10 +0200
                Re: bdiff bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-06-19 06:10 -0500
          Re: bdiff Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-09 07:13 -0400
            Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 13:30 -0600
    Re: variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-03 23:11 -0600
      Re: variable-length strings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-04 10:55 +0200

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