I check both file size and checksum. It's only 99.99% safe, but that's fine for me.

>Hi all
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>I can use FILETOSTR(), low level file access or FC.exe to compare 2 text files and know if they are same. I was curious if SYS(2007, FILETOSTR("MyFile.txt")) help me in this matter by comparing with a previously generated checksum value.
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>My concern being small, say a single character, change to a big text file will guaranteed return a different checksum value?
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>UPDATE, just thought this question. What are the chances that 2 different text files might return a same value?
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>Please advise.