text_combined: nicholas clark suqhccl4org sat oct 27 2007 093638pm 0300 llfvholgr wrote come across case two identical data structrures stored two different files using storable module thing filesizes two files different maybe much 10 ideas perl mdatadumper mstorable 0777 foreach argv print dumper storableread_magic open fh _ tmpdestdighash tmpdestdighashnew var1 netorder 0 hdrsize 13 version 1 file 1 longsize 4 ptrsize 4 version_nv 1 byteorder 1234 major 1 intsize 4 var1 netorder 0 hdrsize 15 version 26 minor 6 file 1 longsize 4 ptrsize 4 version_nv 2006 byteorder 1234 nvsize 8 major 2 intsize 4 ls l tmpdestdighash rw 1 nick wheel 8872 nov 5 1513 tmpdestdighash rw 1 nick wheel 7938 nov 5 1513 tmpdestdighashnew say sure second file generated newer version storable dont know able write data compact format nicholas clark thu 07 aug 2008 151524 0000 storable issue