should cmp says how many bytes it compared when it terminates?

[Marty Leisner]

I'm comparing a cdrom I wrote with the image on har disk..
(I had problems on different cdrom drives).

With 2.7, when I do
        cmp --verbose

it says:
cmp --verbose /dev/hdc  master
cmp: /dev/hdc: Input/output error
%

Since I was also having all types of problems with the hardware,
wouldn't it be nice to output how many bytes were successfully
matched?

I also have a diffutils for 2.7.2 (2.7 is with redhat 7.1).


Marty Leisner
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