Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Hi, Ed.  Yes--I found no differences between the two sysex dumps. You 
may get different results, though, if there are other factors 
affecting the integreity of the dumps.

If you have a PC and can store the two sysex dumps, you can do a 
quick byte-by byte comparison with a basic MS-DOS command: fc <file1> 
<file2> /b. (Fortunately, its still in Windows XP). The command line 
program compares files. The /b switch makes it a binary [byte-by-
byte] comparison.

If there are no difference, you will get a message that no 
differences were found. If there are differences, they are listed as 
hexidecimal numbers (offset from start of file, file1 byte, file2 
byte).

00000040 17 00
000001A3 3F 2A

Hope this helps.

--Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, ed mann <gongworks@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Steve, to confirm: are you saying your get the same results 
either way?
> 
> steve_the_composer <smw-mail@...> wrote:          Curiosity got to 
me on this issue, so I ran a test with my XL-2500 
> [P2500 w XLEAD ROM + AOrch]. Here are the steps I took:
> 
> 1. With ROMs installed, dumped User banks 0 --> 3 to SONAR.
> 2. Took ROMS out. {Yes, I turned power off first.]
> 3. Dumped User banks to SONAR.
> 4. Saved all sysex dumps (206,720 bytes each) as syx files.
> 5. Did byte-by-byte comparison of files dumped with and without 
ROMs 
> installed.