Compare

Purpose: You can perform a binary comparison between two (of the) logged files. You can search not only for differences but also for equal strings.

Load two or more files in Hackman and select Compare under the Tools menu. The dialog box will pop-up and then you have to select two of the logged files that should be compared.

Settings

Enable smart comparison system: Selecting this option will force the compare algorithm to search for different fields, regardless size. For example 00 34 52 66 00 33 and 00 77 00 33 will give you 34,52,66 bytes that are different while a no-smart comparison would give you all except for the first 00 byte.
Reverse comparison: Instead of searching for differences between the two files, it searches for equal bytes.
From/to offset: You can select a portion to compare and not the whole file.

Messages

"EOF met in " in the results matrix, declares that the two files do not have same size, so the comparison ended before meeting the end of both files.
"..." in the results matrix, declares that there were too many differences (or equalities if reverse comparison is activated) and there was not enough memory to show them all.

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