Time: Sun Aug 17 21:08:53 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA19053; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 21:03:14 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 01:17:06 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in toolbar] Subject: SLS: U.S. Attorney v. Counselor at Law OPPSTRIK.ASC - the exploits of Robert L. Miskell, U.S. ATTORNey COUNPA1.ASC - the fundamental Law governing Counsel of choice Attachment Converted: "I:\ATTACH\OPPSTRIK.ASC" Attachment Converted: "I:\ATTACH\COUNPA1.ASC" ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in toolbar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]From ???@??? Sun Aug 17 21:11:52 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22924; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 21:13:06 -0700 (MST) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA28648; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 21:09:47 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 21:08:30 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLF: need help Dear Clients and Friends, When I programmed operating systems, one of the most useful utilities was a fast program I wrote to compare two files, and return a Y/N status to the operating system, via a global variable (one which survives after CALL EXIT in Fortran). This program ignored the time and date stamp, and simply compared the two bit streams for identity. Rather than report individual discrepancies, it simply stopped, if and when it found two corresponding bits which were not the same. Or, if it got to the end and all bits were the same, and the files were the same length, it would report aok. Here is a typical command-line sequence: C:\MYDIR> compare a.txt b.txt files are identical C:\MYDIR> compare a.txt junk.txt files are different Does anybody know what language would be the most convenient one in which to write such a utility? I do want the code to be fast, like the code written by people who write the Norton Utilities. I always wrote in Fortran, because that was our operating system language. It had a very fast low-level routine for reading whole pages (2,048 bytes per page). Any advice you may have would be most appreciated. I want a compiled program which will work across a Windows network. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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