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... an old desiderata?

Lately I had to compare a couple of binary files in which what I needed was to simply have them both side by side with different bytes highlighted. No resynch, no ignore, nothing at all, just a simple display.
It should be very trivial to do, isn't it?

I did my task with FC (fc /b filea fileb > diff.txt) but having it on full screen should have been much better.

If I remember well, I'm not the only one asking for this.

If it's not possible to have it natively I think I'll develop a simple plugin.
I already have an idea.

EDPro does indeed compare binary files. It will try to determine whether the file is binary, and if it decides that the files are text files and compare them as such, use the "Toggle text/binary comparison" from the Files menu.

Unless you don't want added/deleted blocks, in which case EDPro will not help you here.

Unless you don't want added/deleted blocks,

Right that!

There's a request "Implement fast binary comparison mode (byte-by-byte comparison)" at https://www.prestosoft.com/edp_suggestions.asp but we haven't got to it yet.

This is coming in 9.0: http://blog.prestosoft.com/2016/10/fast ... te-by.html

Wow!
Thank you