How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?

[Kenneth Chiu]

cmp doesn't recurse, though, at least as far as I can tell.
In theory, I could use find, then cmp, plus some scripting,
but seems simpler to just write a small C program
to do it.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
<BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov> wrote:
> Kenneth Chiu sent the following at Monday, October 26, 2009 2:29 PM
>>
>>Considering that I only want to know whether or not two files differ,
>>this should not require any significant memory usage. (In other words,
>>don't use mmap().)
>
> If you only want to know whether or not they are identical, use cmp.
>
> - Barry
>
> "Get the right tool for the right job."
>
> Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
>
>

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