Original author(s) | Mani A. Ulloa [1] |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Microsoft, IBM, Digital Research, Novell |
Initial release | 1984, 39–40 years ago |
Written in |
MS-DOS:
x86 assembly language FreeDOS: C |
Operating system | MS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Windows, DR DOS, FreeDOS |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | MS-DOS:
MIT FreeDOS: GPLv2+ |
Website |
docs |
In
computing, fc
(File Compare) is a
command-line program in
DOS,
IBM
OS/2 and
Microsoft
Windows
operating systems, that compares multiple
files and outputs the differences between them.
[2]
[3] It is similar to the
Unix commands
comm
,
cmp
and
diff
.
The fc
command has been included in Microsoft operating systems since
MS-DOS 2.11 (e.g. on the 1984/85
DEC Rainbow release)
[4] and is included in all versions of Microsoft Windows.
[5] fc
has also been included in IBM OS/2 Version 2.0.
[6]
DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the fc
command.
[7]
The command is also available in FreeDOS. This implementation is licensed under the GPLv2+. [8]
fc
can compare
text files as well as
binary files.
[9] The latest versions[
which?] can compare
ASCII or
Unicode text. The result of comparisons are output to the
standard output. The output of fc
is intended primarily to be human readable and may be difficult to use in other programs.
Original author(s) | Mani A. Ulloa [1] |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Microsoft, IBM, Digital Research, Novell |
Initial release | 1984, 39–40 years ago |
Written in |
MS-DOS:
x86 assembly language FreeDOS: C |
Operating system | MS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Windows, DR DOS, FreeDOS |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | MS-DOS:
MIT FreeDOS: GPLv2+ |
Website |
docs |
In
computing, fc
(File Compare) is a
command-line program in
DOS,
IBM
OS/2 and
Microsoft
Windows
operating systems, that compares multiple
files and outputs the differences between them.
[2]
[3] It is similar to the
Unix commands
comm
,
cmp
and
diff
.
The fc
command has been included in Microsoft operating systems since
MS-DOS 2.11 (e.g. on the 1984/85
DEC Rainbow release)
[4] and is included in all versions of Microsoft Windows.
[5] fc
has also been included in IBM OS/2 Version 2.0.
[6]
DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the fc
command.
[7]
The command is also available in FreeDOS. This implementation is licensed under the GPLv2+. [8]
fc
can compare
text files as well as
binary files.
[9] The latest versions[
which?] can compare
ASCII or
Unicode text. The result of comparisons are output to the
standard output. The output of fc
is intended primarily to be human readable and may be difficult to use in other programs.