Fc

(1) See Fibre Channel.

(2) (File Compare) An external DOS/Windows command that compares the content of two files. The following example compares the text files 1.TXT and 2.TXT. See file compare and Comp.

fc 1.txt 2.txt     blank areas
must match

fc 1.txt 2.txt /w  blank areas do not
have to match

fc 1.txt 2.txt /a  show only start and
end of mismatches

MISMATCHES IN TEXT FILESText files are compared line by line, and discrepancies are displayed as follows:

***** first file
start
...
...
end
***** second file
start
...
...
end
*****

BINARY FILESBinary files, such as .EXE, .COM, .SYS, .OBJ, .LIB and .BIN, are compared byte for byte. To compare program files ABC.EXE and XYZ.EXE, type:

fc abc.exe xyz.exe

MISMATCHES IN BINARY FILESBinary file discrepancies are shown as follows. The AAAAAA is the hexadecimal location of the mismatched bytes, and the two BB's are the bytes (in hex) from the two files:

AAAAAAAA BB BB