From: VERSTEEGH M Organization: RuG Onderwijs Nat/Sch To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:16:50 MET Subject: filecompare utility,already a new release Reply-to: m DOT versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl Message-ID: Someone found a bug, which sometimes made the program crash, i've fixed it and put the new version on my page. Also I put a first release of the graphical version there(it's still a bit slow, but on a fast computer it's quite useful to have 50 lines instead of 25) (I know it's a lot like sdiff, but I find sdiff less clear because it doesn' do the coloring, you cannot (yet) flip the differing code from one side to the other, I'm working on that. here's the first announcement, in case you missed it: I've written a handy filecompare utility. How it works: Two files can be displayed next to eachother, the common lines will be colored green, and the different ones will be white also, when you scroll up and down, the program will keep the common parts of both file next to each other, in this way you can quickly see the differnces between ,for instance, to different versions of a piece of code, there are some options included to ignore white space and that kind of stuff. I will make the sources available, and upload it to a good ftpsite as soon as I'm finished width translating all the comments from dutch to english. in the mean time the program is available from : http://www.cpedu.rug.nl/~N0772984/martijn.html I'd like to hear your reactions, if many people like it, i'll optimize the graphical version I'm currently working on(this has 50 lines on the screen instead of 25, but it's still a bit slow, for I'm doing some very inefficient things in the graphical code, such as refreshing the whole screen when changeing just one character) Have fun width it Martijn Versteegh