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Old 08-27-2008
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Wink Take a look at diff
Below, I copy ots to another location; meaning both files are identical.
The 2nd line diff command returns nothing; confirming that the files are identical.

I then compare two slightly different versions of the file; and get the message that the binary files are different.

Code:
> cp otsort ../cbin2/ots_orig
> diff otsort ../cbin2/ots_orig
> diff ots ots64
Binary files ots and ots64 differ