File Compare

fc
Original author(s)Mani A. Ulloa[1]
Developer(s)Microsoft, IBM, Digital Research, Novell
Initial release1984, 39–40 years ago
Written inMS-DOS: x86 assembly language
FreeDOS: C
Operating systemMS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Windows, DR DOS, FreeDOS
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand
LicenseMS-DOS: MIT
FreeDOS: GPLv2+
Websitedocs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/fc

In computing, fc (File Compare) is a command-line program in DOS, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems, that compares multiple files and outputs the differences between them.[2][3] It is similar to the Unix commands comm, cmp and diff.

  1. ^ OS/2 Museum
  2. ^ "fc Microsoft Docs". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  3. ^ "Fasthelp". Technet.microsoft.com. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 2016-06-15.