kaseytraeger Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 I'm trying to find a text editor or another similar program that can take two .txt/.htm/.css/.php/.js/fill-in-the-extension ... files and compare them to determine if the two files have the exact same content. Does anyone know of a program or tool that does this? Thanks. Quote
borfast Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 I know Meld (http://meld.sourceforge.net/), which is absolutely brilliant. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 (edited) I use vdiff32 from Mortice Kern Systems (www.mkssoftware.com). It's part of the MKS Toolkit (or was) Edited June 8, 2004 by TCH-Bruce Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 I went and did a search and found this one (Kdiff3). Looks pretty good. Works on multiple patforms including Windows. It's open source. http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ Quote
kaseytraeger Posted June 8, 2004 Author Posted June 8, 2004 Wow, it looks like there are quite a few out there. I'll have to check out those that have been suggested. BTW, does "diff" stand for "difference/different"? Quote
TCH-Rob Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 BTW, does "diff" stand for "difference/different"? Depends on the context in which it is used. In this case, most likely. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 BTW, does "diff" stand for "difference/different"? Depends on the context in which it is used. In this case, most likely. Quote
MikeJ Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 (edited) "diff" is (originally I believe) a unix command to find the differences between two files. That's where a lot of these programs get the name from most likely. So yea, it's short for differences. Edited June 8, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ Quote
kaseytraeger Posted June 9, 2004 Author Posted June 9, 2004 I've tried downloading the two apps from Sourceforge (Meld and KDiff3), but I must be doing something wrong because when I try to decompress the tar ball, my decompressing app tells me that the files are empty, even though when I look in File Explorer, it shows that the tar balls actually have some mass (e.g., the Meld tar.gz file is 357K and the KDiff3 file is 1435K). I first uploaded these tar balls to my web space and tried using cPanel to extract. That didn't work. So I downloaded SimplyZip (http://www.sofotex.com/Simplyzip-download_L7200.html) to try to decompress the files on my local machine, but that program also couldn't open KDiff3 or Meld. Have you any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Quote
borfast Posted June 9, 2004 Posted June 9, 2004 (edited) That's odd... Kasey, I remember WinZip and WinRar could handle .tar.gz pretty well. I'd suggest you try WinRAR (http://rarlabs.com/ - it used to be my favorite compression tool for windows). I did forget to mention one thing, though: Meld is a visual diff tool for Linux/Gnome... I don't know if it works in Windows (assuming you're using Windows, that is) Edited June 9, 2004 by TCH-Raul Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 9, 2004 Posted June 9, 2004 For the KDiff3 program there is a specific download and it is in .EXE format for Windows. Quote
kaseytraeger Posted June 9, 2004 Author Posted June 9, 2004 For the KDiff3 program there is a specific download and it is in .EXE format for Windows. Thanks for the reminder, Bruce. Apparently, I didn't look closely enough at the download page and just clicked on the first link. If I had looked 0.5 cm below, I'd have seen the .exe download. I just installed KDiff3 and it seems to be working. Now I need to learn how to really work the tool! Quote
kaseytraeger Posted June 9, 2004 Author Posted June 9, 2004 I did forget to mention one thing, though: Meld is a visual diff tool for Linux/Gnome... I don't know if it works in Windows (assuming you're using Windows, that is) Unfortunately, yes, the computer I need to use the program on is a WinXP machine. I ended up installing KDiff3. Quote
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