                                     FC
           Compare files and report differences (ascii or binary)
                         See also <COMP> <DISKCOMP>

COMMAND TYPE: External                  VERSION: 4.0 and up

FC compares two files, or sets of files, and reports the differences
between them.  It is more powerful than <COMP> and may be used with
binary or ascii (text) files.

USE:
(ascii) FC [/a][/c][/L][/Lb n][/n][/t][/w][/nnnn][d:]path1 [d:]path2
(bin)   FC [/b][/nnnn] [d:]path1 [d:]path2

d: is an optional drive specified for either path1 or path2.  Path1 and
   path2 are the path and filenames of the files to compare
/a abbreviate output of ascii comparison - output only lines that begin
   and end each set of differences.
/b binary compare - byte for byte comparison with no attempt to
   resychronise after a mismatch. This is the default for .exe, .com,
   .lib, .obj, .sys, or .bin type files.
/c ignore case in comparing ascii text
/L compare in ascii mode.  This is default except as noted above.
/Lb n  sets the internal bufffer to n lines (default is 100).  Files which
   have more than this number of consecutive mismatched lines will abort
   the comparison.
/n display line numbers (ascii only)
/t do not expand tabs to spaces.  Default is to treat tabs as spaces to 8
   column positions
/w compress whitespace (multiple tabs or spaces) into a single space
   before comparing
/nnn specified the number of lines that must match after a difference
   before FC considers the files resynchronised (default is 2).
