Re: Net::FTP on OSX10.3 corrupting files

Have you compared a file uploaded with fetch to a file uploaded with Net::FTP ?

 
ls -l
diff filea fileb
strings filea > a.txt
strings fileb > b.txt
diff a.txt b.txt | more
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It might be easier to compare non binary files as a control, but you can force diff to do binary files

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Re: Re: Net::FTP on OSX10.3 corrupting files by manchot (Initiate) on Nov 07, 2003 at 01:20 UTC
Yes, the files are slightly different sizes, and diff-a spits out a ton of junk (remember, they're mpeg4s, and 40+MB each.. ) Comparing the strings output, they starts out similar, and with some binary looking characters in them, too.. 43810573 Nov 06 16:25 x.mp4 (Net::FTP) 43811351 Nov 06 13:45 y.mp4 (Fetch) %> head *.txt ==> x.txt<== ftypmp42 mp42isom kmoov lmvhd çõtrak \tkhd $edts elst çmmdia mdhd ==> y.txt <== ftypmp42 mp42isom kmoov lmvhd çõtrak \tkhd $edts elst çmmdia mdhd had to stop the strings, cuz each file was generating around 24 MEGs of "strings"!! Clearly, fetch and Net::FTP are not doing the same thing!	[reply]
Re: Re: Net::FTP on OSX10.3 corrupting files by Roger (Parson) on Nov 07, 2003 at 13:34 UTC
Just to add that there is a gnu program called bdiff that specializes in diffing binary files. And also bvi to edit binary files.	[reply]