From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 11 05:06:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA18668 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 05:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliff.bms.com (cliff.bms.com [140.176.1.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA18663 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 05:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synapse.bms.com (synapse1.bms.com) by cliff.bms.com (PMDF V5.1-8 #22413) with SMTP id <01IJXTO9SWQO00YMHJ@cliff.bms.com> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:06:11 EST Received: by synapse.bms.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19164; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:06:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:06:47 -0400 (EDT) From: metcalfj@synapse.bms.com (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Subject: Q: Are there problems with /usr/bin/cmp ? To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <9706111206.AA19164@synapse.bms.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am running FreeBSD-2.2.1 and was recently trying to use /usr/bin/cmp with the skip options. According to the manual page, I am supposed to be able to to enter skip offsets in decimal, octal, or hexadecimal. However, none of them seem to work. Is /usr/bin/cmp broken with respect to these options, or is there something missing from the documentation on how to use them? Thank You, JM