Private Sub CompareBinaryFiles(t1 As String, t2 As String) Open txtOne.Text For Binary Access Read As #1 Open txtTwo.Text For Binary Access Read As #2 Dim pos As Long Dim differencepercentage As Single Dim o As Byte, t As Byte Dim textOne As String, textTwo As String Dim totalcount As Integer, differencecount As Integer 'need to initalize before computing totalcount = 0 differencecount = 0 On Error GoTo exit2 'loop the file until EOF Do Until EOF(2) 'count + 1 whenever the file loop totalcount = totalcount + 1 'calculating the positioning of the file pos = pos + 1 pos2 = pos2 + 1 If pos > txtOne Then GoTo exit2 Get #1, pos, t Get #2, pos, o 'add the countdiffernces by 1 If t <> o Then lstMistakes.AddItem "Byte " & pos & " - " & t & " (" & o & ")" If t <> o Then differencecount = differencecount + 1 'DoEvents If pos Mod 256 = 0 Then PB.Value = pos Loop GoTo esc exit2: If pos2 = cut Then GoTo esc lstMistakes.AddItem "---File ended at byte " & pos2 & " ---" esc: lstMistakes.Visible = True PB.Visible = False Close #1 Close #2 'calculating the percentage of the differnces of files On Error GoTo errhandler 'differencepercentage = (differencecount / totalcount) * 100 List2.AddItem "Binary Compare Similarity :" & 100 - differencepercentage & " %" List2.AddItem "Binary Compare diffences :" & differencepercentage & " %" Exit Sub errhandler: Resume Next End Sub Is this the way to do the binary files comparison? But when i include this function my normal text files comparison will have a extra line at the end of each documents!