Recommendation: good file compare program ?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Oct 29 17:40:48 UTC 2007


SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:

> Hi Derek,
> Thank you !
> 
> I already choosed Meld ;-)
> 

Well, that's one I hadn't heard of, but I felt sure when you asked
for "good" that "diff" didn't fit the bill :-)  diff is perfectly good for
creating machine-readable files (e.g. patches) but it sucks for making an
easy visual comparison of two files unless there are very few differences.
-- 
derek





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