Article ID: 51078
Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a
This article was previously published under Q51078
SUMMARY
The following FC (FILECOMPARE) command should compare file1 to file2, ignoring white space and adding line numbers to the differences report:
fc /w/n file1 file2
Blank lines should be counted when computing the reported line numbers; however, they are not counted.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MS-DOS versions 4.x and 5.x. This problem was corrected in later versions of MS-DOS.
Additional query words: 4.01 5.00
Keywords: KB51078