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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Any quick, easy way to compare two images?
Date: 26 Jan 2014 02:49:32 GMT
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On 2014-01-26, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <52e449dc$0$51479$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>> > i just proved that a copy of a file has the same create date.
>> 
>> Not all copies are created equal.
>> 
>> You can't state that unless you know how the copy is being made. I
>> provided 2 examples where this is not the case.
>
> you didn't make a copy, you cat'ted the output of one file into a new
> file. the contents may be the same (for text, anyway, it won't work so
> well for binary), but the metadata is not, therefore it's not a copy. 
>
> you could re-save a jpeg in photoshop and call it a copy, but jpeg is
> lossy and the copy will not be the same as the original. 
>
> when someone makes a copy of something, they expect it to be identical.
> duplicating a file on the mac will be.

One might be fooled into thinking you are that naive to think that all
copies are the same in the real world, but experience tells us that you
are just being moronically disingenuous in a futile attempt to defend
the utterly indefensible position you've taken.

You are, in a word, lame, Betty.

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