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Re: Binary diff and X color resolution
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- Subject: Re: Binary diff and X color resolution
- From: Shaul Karl <shaulka(at-nospam)bezeqint.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 00:29:39 +0300
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>
> Hey gang, two unrelated questions squished to one, in the best of the
> Zadka tradition.
>
> a. how does one create a diff and patch of a binary data file? GNU diff
> only supports text.
>
Never did such a thing but one way could be to
cmp -l bin1 bin2 > patch.bin
and let ed handle the actual patching. I guess you will have to run some
script on patch.bin before the actual patch in order to be able to let ed do
the work.
Hope this help.
Do let us know how you actually solved this.
> b. I have a few oldie apps that insist my Xserver should run in 8-bit
> pseudo color mode, which ofcourse I don't (24 bits ofcourse). is there a
> wrapper or some way to fool it? Xnest maybe?
>
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