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If you just need to know if the files are functionally different, 
not where they are different, you could just compile the two files
and compare the resulting binaries.

james hopper wrote:
> 
> i looke dat it and its good as far as it goes, but it doent handle the
> case where lines with embedded carrage control.  if you change the
> formatting on lines it won't do a true diff.