Recommendation: good file compare program ?

[SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux]

Hyvää päivä Ari, 
hehehe, did you ever ask this smart community about it ? 
Ei, ei !?
Joulupukki will complain and bring you a bunch !? ;-)

Heya, no: I do not know when Meld came out but 
as along user of OS/2 Warp I use PMdiff and like this Meld is quite
familiar to me ;-)
 
Terve, svobi




On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 06:52 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> ma, 2007-10-29 kello 07:58 +0100, Alexandre Franke kirjoitti:
> > On 10/29/07, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
> > > What is the best program to compare 2 of these files i.e.
> > > the first (system inst set) and my current one ???
> > 
> > You might want to check out Meld.
> 
> 
> When did this tool come out and why nobody told me about it before! :-)
> This is the holy grail of being easily able to control that you always
> have an unchanged copy of your important files. Just keep three copies
> of the files on different media, and then compare the three every now
> and then. If one of them has changed, replace the media on and create a
> new copy. Yay! :-)
> 
> I'm sure this has been possible to do with some command line tools until
> now, but using the command line for anything more complicated than
> launching dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg or just copy-pasting some
> commands to get out of trouble just makes me feel too uncomfortable (I
> have tried to learn to like it, but never succeeded).
> 
> Ari Torhamo
> 
>