| SubOne | can anyone recommend a diff app that works with binaries and has a gui I was surprised to find Kompare didn't work for binary files |
| Renze | why would you ever need to diff a binary? |
| SubOne | to quickly check if they differ.... and to create a patcher |
| Renze | md5sum will tell you that, and patches are ascii |
| SubOne | what? patches ascii what are you saying? |
| Renze | patches are plain text you can't make binary patches |
| SubOne | yes you can and there are diff/patch apps but i havent seen any with gui |
| Renze | why would you want to? the binary would have to have been compiled with exactly the same gcc version and options for it to be able to be applied |
| SubOne | Renze: does it matter? if you don't know its alright to say so. |
| Renze | it does matter |
| SubOne | Why does it matter what my intentions are? You either know if such a thing exists or not. |
| Renze | no such thing exists, because the premise is ridiculous |
| Alethes | Renze: what's he looking for? |
| Renze | Alethes: a diff program that will make patches for binaries |
| Alethes | heh like a hex editing patch? |
| Renze | apparently |
| SubOne | Explain to me how patching a 50 megabyte or larger archive with game data in it with a 10kb file for small changes is ridiculous? |
| Alethes | hehe SubOne: diff two binaries and use patch with the result see what happens :) |
| SubOne | Alethes: You seem to think binary automatically means executable. |
| Alethes | uh no |
| bluelightning | SubOne: bsdiff/bspatch and Xdelta are probably your options... but I doubt you will find a GUI for them |
| Renze | I'll leave this one to you, Alethes. have fun. I'm off to have a shower |
| Alethes | Renze: nah, I'm too busy reading slashdot that's how bored I am :) |
| SubOne | bluelightning: thanks, i guess ill have to stick with console app |
| Alethes | btw, Renze, I don't have wireless highspeed anymore it's satellite now which is actually faster and more reliable |