Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 106

Chapter 6 / Command Reference
Examples
f c / b t est 1 . s r e t est 2 . s r c
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does a binary comparison of the files Test1.src and Test2.src that
are in the current directory, and redirects output to the file
Test3.src that is also in the current directory.
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hname
to the FC command. For example, to send
the output of the above command to the file Differ.src in
the current directory, type:
f c / b f i 1 e 1 . s r e f
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If the number of lines in the internal buffer is smaller than
the number of consecutive, differing lines, FC stops. It
displays:
resynch failed. Files are too different
Then, it returns to the MS-DOS system prompt.
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does a line-by-line comparison of B: \ USER \ Myfile.src and
B: \ USER \ Myfile1.src, compressing white spaces and ignoring
case. After FC finds a mismatch, at least four lines in a row
must match for the file to be considered matching.
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