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Well, it's 4years later and ExamDiff still has no byte-by-byte comparison for binary files !!!
No way to meaningfully compare bmp, png, mp3, exe, dll, etc...

This makes the whole developer community shun ExamDiff and reach for other tools such as this one http://www.fairdell.com/hexcmp/

Dear Alex,

Indeed this is a very similar gap in EDP's functionality, as described at:

http://www.prestoforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=421

I cannot understand why EDP developers implemented the very complex matching/synchronization routines, but did not do simple byte-by-byte comparison like most ...

..either that or rename ExamDiff Pro to TextDiff Pro

Its text comparison functions are excellent!

Regards,
George

But that makes no sense in equally sized binary files!

A change of a byte from e.g. 0x04 to 0x00 is not a deletion - it is still a change (from 4 to 0)

Such functionality is FUNDAMENTAL in any diff tool.
I am shocked that an advanced tool such as ExamDiff does not offer pure binary comparison ...

How to enable pure binary comparison?
By pure I mean: "byte by byte" comparison for ALL bytes in the files and with differences highlighted in BOTH panes.

ExamDiff Pro v 3.5.1 insists on defining "added and "deleted" sections, which simply make no sense in a binary file, when a user wants an offset ...