* T o n g mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20080715 18:06]:

First of all, thank you mika for answering my previous question. Now,

You're welcome.

Is there any recommended binary files differ that can detect binary insertions/deletions/substitutions with colorful output?

Here is the one that I found most useful. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.lsm

qdiff - Compare two binary files and print differences in various ways, very colorful output (insertions/deletions/substitutions), simple yet effective syncro engine, may be very slow, useful and fast for large files with few differences (e.g. verifying correctness of grabbed cdda data)

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.tar.gz

any chance to include it in our repo?

Well, looks like qdiff is unmaintained nowadays. It doesn't even compile here OOTB. :-/ I'm not really happy with adding software to our repository if the software isn't maintained upstream anymore.

Hm, did you take a look at vbindiff and vimdiff already?

regards, -mika-