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We'll add the following requests to the list of planned features: Binary comparison improvements Ability to switch between code pages 500 and 37 fro EBCDIC encoding Reduce the size of the address column THANK YOU!! :D You guys are the greatest! EDP totally rocks! (And it keeps getting better!) :D :D

Nevertheless, I shall take a look at it myself and will let you know which code points appear to be incorrect. Thanks. I will post my analysis of your "e2a" table in a few minutes. I THINK I FOUND THE PROBLEM! EDP appears to be using code page 500! (not 37): (https://www.kreativekorp.com/...

We use a third-party Hex Editor library, and here's their conversion table: Just out of curiosity, do they document where THEY got it from? We can change it to '!' but there may be other problems in this table, so perhaps you could take a look. I do not wish to be rude, but is there a reason why yo...

P.S. It would also be nice if the left hand file offset column wasn't so wide too. In the EDP comparison example I posted, the file is only 224 bytes in size. Yet, the left hand file offset column is 16 hexadecimal digits wide! I seriously doubt anyone would be comparing two 64-petabyte binary files...

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FYI: Other programs seem to display EBCDIC data just fine:

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EDP has a Binary Comparison Character set option to display binary data in either EBCDIC or ASCII. As an IBM Mainframe programmer, I use EBCDIC a lot, and noticed some characters are not displaying correctly: :( edp-ebcdic.png On the left is the string: "Success ! CDSG, STPQ and LPQ: OK". ...

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psguru wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:25 am This command has been replaced by File | Compare As... commands since the introduction of table comparison in 13.0 and thus making this a choice of 3, not just a simple toggle.

THANK YOU, psguru! That works a treat. Problem solved. I'm happy.

MSpagni wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:46 am Hint: do not simply modify the standard toolbars; use a name different from the standards for your custom toolbar.

Ah! Maybe that's the trick!

Thanks, MSpagni. I'll give it a try.

. The "Toggle Text/Binary Comparison" command appears to have been removed in EDP 13. Why? It is a very valuable command that I use quite often! How can I get it back? As you can see in the below screenshots, my customized EDP 12 file comparison toolbar has a button for it in the 7th posit...

Whenever a new version of EDP is installed, the toolbars for both directory comparison and the file comparison are reset to their default, thereby forcing me to re-customize them all over again (which can be a PITA!). Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Is there some save/restore procedur...

psguru wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 10:15 am Thank you for your detailed report. The fix will appear in the next build of 12.0.

Confirmed! Thank you!

psguru wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:09 pm Thanks for reporting this. The fix will appear in the next build of 12.0.

Confirmed! Thank you!

FWIW, the same bug occurs in EDP version 11 too.

. Here are the last two screen shots: . . This is a second screen shot of the BOTTOM of the problematic directory comparison display (filter = "Show All", grouping = "Status") showing the second of the two "phantom" groups: . ShowAllFilterWithGroupingBottomBlankGroup2.j...

The screenshots problem is easy to work around - attach 3 to one post then 2 to a following post. (DOH!) Silly me. :oops: Okay, here's the first screen shot of the initial directory comparison display, with the 'Show Only Differences" filter applied and the "Group By" set to "St...