What's this problem with using a module outside of the
standard distribution? As you said, there's Algorithm::Diff.
If you have a xenomodule phobia, I doubt the license
prevents you from just pasting the content of Algorithm::Diff
into your file.
I am not particulary phobic of modules...but for something that I "see" as pretty basic....it seemed that I shouldn't have to go external to stock perl just to test to see if two files are the same or not.
Thanks all for the tips...I was leaning towards "fingerprinting" the files via md5 et. al. and now it seems pretty clear that it is the way to go.
Thanks again
Dimes