From: VERSTEEGH M <M DOT Versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl>
Organization:  RuG Onderwijs Nat/Sch
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:15:38 MET
Subject:       file-compare-utility version 0.9.7
Reply-to: m DOT versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl
Message-ID: <133EAAE0BD2@novell_cpedu1.cpedu.rug.nl>


    A new version of my filecompare-utility is out
    this is version 0.9.7
    ( yes, I know a lot 
of people tell me I'm re-inventing the weel, but also  a lot of 
people seem to like my wheel, so I keep updating it ( I also think 
it does no harm to have some different sorts of wheels, mine is 
especcially handy for quick checks on the different versions of 
files, while in my opinion (s)diff is better for automated 
tasks(e.g. scripts e.d.(whew these ar a lot of brackets(-:)))))

Martijn Versteegh

readme.cm from the distribution follows:
version 0.9.7


        The most important line from the whole document:
        run the program without arguments to get usage help

        CMP. a file compare utility
        I wrote this utility, and I think it is quite useful. A 
graphical version with
more lines on the screen(50 instead of 25) is also available the way.
this program is swapware(I like this idea Shawn), that means if you 
use my
program and you like it, send me something in return.
my email adress is m DOT versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl my mail adress is 
       postbox 1443
       9701BK
       Groningen
       The Netherlands
(I live on a boat,thats why I use a postbox at the postoffice)

DISTRUBUTION:
        please distribute this program as much as possible, for I 
think it is
a useful tool, especially when you're managing more versions of a 
program in development
I would very much aprreciate it if you distributed the program in an 
archive
together with this text file.

        As this is just version 0.9 please send all bug reports to 
me. 
        this version is from february 1997 so if it's more than 2 
months old
        there probably is a fixed version, and I'd rather not get any 
bug reports 
        about this one anymore
                
features:
        -two file displayed next to eachother
        -arrow keys scroll the first file, the second file will be 
displayed
                so, that the common lines are next to eachother
        - -/+ to jump to the  next/last difference
        -option to compress multiple spaces into one when comparing
        -option to ignore all spaces when comparing
        -option to ignore all lines with less than n characters, 
wehere n is out of 
                0-9, this comes in handy with source code because you 
don't want to 
                compare single {'s.
        -option to ignore end of line comments when comparing lines 
(any string can be used as comment token)
        -interactively make a third file from the best parts of the 
other two
        -the program can be used as a viewer when invoked with only 
one file

changes from the last version:
        -bugfixes 
        -added support for user defined comment instead of a 
hardcoded '//'


still to do
        -linux port
        -any other suggestions from users


the original site of this program(as long as I'm still studying) is
http://iglo.cpedu.rug.nl/~N0772985