'Conviction (1)'
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What utilities exist in XP for comparing two binary files to see if they're the same, and to count the number of differences if they're not?
I'm thinking there's an old DOS utility which still might be in XP....
eta: Sorry, I really should have googled first. It looks like the DOS utiltiy 'fc' wil do the trick...
why do you need to do that?
May I ask?
We have a computer that a consultant set up with VB 6 that we use to compile DLLs for a client's web server (for a employee timesheet system that serves thousands of employees). The computer is dying, so I set up the VB project on my computer. I wasn't sure what all was installed on the other computer (like, the Dot Net framework (not sure if that's even used for the DLL)) so I wanted to see if the resulting DLLs were the same. They're not - oddly, every other line has a single character difference.
The DLL I compiled on my computer seems to work fine on our test system. I'm just extra paranoid about breaking something on the payroll system.
Is there any reason that a recordable CD that's been written to by a DVD burner would not be readable in another computer? (The CD session has been closed.)
I'm thinking back to when you would use a 1.2 Meg 5.25 floppy drive to write to a low-density 5.25 floppy - the resulting floppy could be read by a 1.2 Meg drive, but not by a low density drive, as the write head of the 1.2 Meg drive was much smaller than that of a low density drive.
None that I know of. I burn CDs with a DVD burner all the time.
Yep. If it's a problem, it's a specific one. All my CD burners are DVD burners.
Crap. I might have just bought 50 blank CDs from Radio Skack that are useless to us.
At least it wasn't my money.
eta: I try to avoid buying stuff from Radio Shack if I can help it, but it's within walking distance of work, and there's not much else within driving distance....
Have you tried more than one CD?
Leif has tried more than one CD at a time, often this just leads to jamming up the CD unit.
Have you tried more than one CD?
Yes.
One CD burner refused to burn the CDs, which is why I used the DVD burner.
Well, if nothing else works I'll bring my IBook to work tomorrow and connect it to the computer in question (which is off the network as we suspect it has a virus). The CD burner on my iBook is incredibly unfinicky, so hopefully it can use the blank CDs.