Invisible wrote:
> Eero Ahonen wrote:
> 
>> No offence, but why do you need to reinvent the wheel? Just use diff.
> 
> Because it's easier [and more reliable] to call a function than to 
> invoke an external program and attempt to parse it's output?

Ahh yes, that I can understand.

OTOH, based on the very opening of this thread I dare to question the 
increased reliability of that particular built-in function :).

>> For future cases there's lots of useful small programs ported on 
>> Windows, too ;).
>> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Hmm - I wonder if they have "time"? That would be useful...
> 

At least on Cygwin yes, but it's a bit different thing...

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>> Because it's easier [and more reliable] to call a function than to 
>> invoke an external program and attempt to parse it's output?
> 
> Ahh yes, that I can understand.
> 
> OTOH, based on the very opening of this thread I dare to question the 
> increased reliability of that particular built-in function :).

Hmm, well... Suffice it to say that in future, I'll use /dev/urandom 
rather than my own PRNG. And I've now fixed my file comparator. ;-)

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