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Motivation to do some software projects by writing them down.

lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 04/26/2019 at 20:190 Comments

Obviously, there will never be a meld for binary files, which detects transpositions of identical blocks of data.  There is a vbindiff tool which shows a hex view with the differences highlighted.  The lion kingdom has long had a tool for showing locations of changes without showing the actual data.

https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1380505906331200/bindiff.c

For comparing disk images, you're more interested in equivalent sectors rather than bytes, so it takes a threshold argument to show differences by the sector.  There are still dreams of showing transpositions of identical data.

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