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| 3 | <title>MSI, MSP, CAB Diff Tool</title> | ||
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| 11 | <span class="productTitle">Deployment Tools Foundation</span><br /> | ||
| 12 | <span class="topicTitle">MSI, MSP, CAB Diff Tool</span><br /> | ||
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| 15 | <a href="using.htm">Development Guide</a> > | ||
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| 17 | <span class="nolink">DDiff</span> | ||
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| 24 | <div class="summary"> | ||
| 25 | <h2>MSI, MSP, CAB Diff Tool</h2> | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | <p><pre><font face="Consolas, Courier New">Usage: DDiff target1 target2 [options] | ||
| 28 | Example: DDiff d:\dir1 d:\dir2 | ||
| 29 | Example: DDiff setup1.msi setup2.msi | ||
| 30 | Example: DDiff patch1.msp patch2.msp -patchtarget target.msi | ||
| 31 | Example: DDiff package1.cab package2.cab | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | Options: | ||
| 34 | /o [filename] Output results to text file (UTF8) | ||
| 35 | /p [package.msi] Diff patches relative to target MSI</font></pre> | ||
| 36 | </p> | ||
| 37 | <p><br/></p> | ||
| 38 | |||
| 39 | <p>The following types of inputs can be diffed: | ||
| 40 | <ul> | ||
| 41 | <li><b>Directories</b>: files and subdirectories are compared.</li> | ||
| 42 | <li><b>Cab files</b>: internal file list and files are compared.</li> | ||
| 43 | <li><b>MSI/MSM database files</b>: summary info, tables, and embedded binary and cab streams are compared.</li> | ||
| 44 | <li><b>MSP files</b>: summary info and embedded file cab are compared. When a patch target MSI is provided, the MSP's tables are also compared.</li> | ||
| 45 | <li><b>Versioned files</b>: Win32 file version is compared.</li> | ||
| 46 | <li><b>Text files</b>: if diff.exe is in the path, it is used to get a line-by-line diff.</li> | ||
| 47 | <li><b>Other files</b>: file size and bytes are compared.</li> | ||
| 48 | </ul> | ||
| 49 | All processing is done recursively. So a versioned file within a cab within an MSI within a directory will have meaningful diff results.</p> | ||
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